Genital cutting
Women’s perspectives of female genital cutting: Q-methodology
... female genital cutting as a positive cultural aspect and an essential part of the Kurdish ...female genital cutting and considering the practice a violation of human ...female genital ...
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Circumcision and prevention of HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe: Male genital cutting as a religio cultural rite
... When Fortune Sibanda noted that ‘the world over, HIV and AIDS continues to ruffle feathers among different nations, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa’ (2013:1), he elaborately adds his contribution to numerous ...
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Traditional values attached to Female Genital Cutting (FGC) amongst the Pokot of West Pokot, Kenya
... Most of the Pokot community members, occupy an isolated and remote area within a very harsh environment, and are one of the pastoralist communities in west Pokot County which highly depend on nature. They have many ...
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Media and Community Influences on Female Genital Cutting in Egypt
... This study examines how media exposure influences Egyptian mothers’ intent for daughters to undergo female genital cutting (FGC), and whether community discussions of FGC moderate media effects. A mother’s ...
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Meaning-making of female genital cutting: children’s perception and acquired knowledge of the ritual
... female genital cutting understand the ritual? This study provides an analysis of the learning process and knowledge acquired in their meaning- making ...female genital cutting should identify ...
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Female Genital Cutting: Fundamentals, Social Expectations and Change
... female genital cutting, honor killing, domestic violence and child labor are just a few ...female genital cutting (FGC), 1 an old and still common practice that has been extensively ...
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Ritual Genital Cutting of Female Minors
... of FGC are decidedly harmful, and pe- diatricians should decline to per- form them, even in the absence of any legal constraints. However, the ritual nick suggested by some pedia- tricians is not physically harmful and ...
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Prevalence and associated factors of female genital cutting among young adult females in Jigjiga district, eastern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional mixed study
... Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and associated factors of female genital cutting (FGC) among young adult (10–24 years of age) females in Jigjiga[r] ...
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Mismatch between Interventionists’ Messages and Local Reality of Female Genital Cutting in a Kurya Society - Northern Tanzania
... Female genital cutting viewed as harmful, painful and traumatic practice experienced by girls and women; is also regarded as gender violent practice against women and girl ...
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Female genital cutting (FGC) and the ethics of care: community engagement and cultural sensitivity at the interface of migration experiences
... “Female Genital Cutting (FGC)” and “excision and infibulation” have been iden- tified as more neutral, ethically sensitive terminology ...female genital organs for cultural or non-therapeutic ...
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Pupil’s perspectives on female genital cutting abandonment in Harari and Somali regions of Ethiopia
... shock, genital tissue swelling, fever, infections, and problems with urination and wound healing ...of cutting and protect their daughters from harm ...
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Cultural protection against traumatic stress: traditional support of children exposed to the ritual of female genital cutting
... The cutting ritual is organized into four ...the cutting and seeing the professional circumciser who enters the ...the cutting and then leaves the room while the comforters remove the blindfold and ...
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Reason and Paradox in Medical and Family Law: Shaping Children’s Bodies
... Turning to MGC and patriarchy, there are indeed some contexts in which the genital cutting of males is more directly associated with their elevated status, and thus with a lowered status for females. In ...
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Genital and Urinary Tract Obstruction as a Late Complication of Female Genital Mutilation at Latifa Hospital, Dubai, UAE—Case Report
... Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as “female genital cutting”, “fe- male genital mutilation/cutting” or “cutting” (FGM/C), refers to “all procedures involving partial” ...
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Thesis.pdf
... anesthesia, antibiotics, or sterile technique (Braddy & Files, 2007; Nour, 2008). Women and girls are frequently held down by a number of females, including their own relatives (WHO, 2001). Following excision of the ...
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Effectiveness of health education as an intervention designed to prevent female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C): a systematic review
... female genital mutilation OR female circumcis* OR female genital cutting, af- fected communit*, health educat* AND/OR health liter- acy, prevent* OR abandon* OR eliminat* OR stop*(see Additional file ...
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Underlying Sociocultural Practices Influencing Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Kajiado County
... The International Human Rights law including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) proclaims the right for all human beings to live in condi- tions that enable them to enjoy good health and access health care. ...
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Article: Awareness and practice of female genital mutilation/cutting in a semi-urban community in southwest Nigeria
... Our survey found that young women were more likely to have experienced genital cutting in the study population. This confirms that FGM/C is usually carried out between infancy and adolescence. Married women ...
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Female Genital Mutilation in Northeastern Nigeria
... Female genital mutilation as one type of harmful traditional practices is a form of violence against ...Female Genital Mu- tilation (FGM), practiced in many parts of the world, also known as female ...
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Female reproductive right violation in Igbo land: A philosophical and counseling review
... Female genital mutilation (FGM) otherwise known as female genital cutting (FGC), or excision, clitoridectomy, infibulations or female circumcision is one of the most serious forms of reproductive ...
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