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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Female circumcision"”.
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Through the Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse of Female Circumcision
… the Western media attention and the critique of female circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa, few studies consider the local populations' traditions, values, and ideologies.<em> Through the Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse of Female Circumcision</em> investigates female circumcision practices …
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Painful Discourses: Borders, Regions, and Representations of Female Circumcision from Africa to America
… of change and/or participate in change in the female circumcision debate. Texts that currently shape the female circumcision debate are increasingly focused on viable methods of social change and couch issues of change in dynamics of discourse and representation, including Obioma Nnaemeka’s …
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The Impact of Female Circumcision on primary school pupils: The Case of Moshi Rural District
… explore the social cultural factors that propel female circumcision practice among the Chagga communities in Moshi rural district. The study attempted to answer various questions in order to meet its specific objectives, which were to identify the form and essence of sexuality among Chagga in …
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Colonizing Bodies: a Feminist Science Studies Critique of Anti-Fgm Discourse
The contentious topic of female circumcision brings together medical science, women's health activism, and national and international policy-making in pursuit of the common goal of protecting female bodies from harm. To date, most criticisms of female circumcision, practiced mainly in parts of …
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Possessing the secret of black womanhood : reading African women in Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy, The Color Purple, and Warrior Marks
… Walker's representation of African women and female circumcision in her novels Possessing the Secret of Joy and The Color Purple and her documentary film Warrior Marks and its accompanying book of the same name the text, to argue that when national and cultural differences are sacrificed for …
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Problems of representation and representativeness in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction
… of Kenyan resistance to colonial rule (the female circumcision debate and the Mau Mau insurgency) , in which 'woman' is mobilized as a metaphor for the Kenyan social matrix by Gikuyu nationalist/traditionalist discourses. Following Spivak, I find in female circumcision a metonym of the …
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Multilevel Factors Associated with Uptake of Biomedical HIV Prevention Strategies in the Muslim World: a Study of Central Asia, India, and Mali
… rapid changes in HIV prevalence. HIV testing and circumcision, as biomedical interventions, are the focus of this dissertation since biomedical strategies are the among the most efficacious HIV interventions. This dissertation examines the relationship of multilevel effects to HIV stigma, HIV risk …
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Cultural Traditions and the Reproductive Health of Somali Refugees and Immigrants
… is a new concept. There was a strong desire for female caregivers and significant differences in childbirth practices exist versus cultural traditions. Women expressed fears regarding cesarean sections and felt that their providers rushed to cesarean sections. Providers’ generally poor …
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Negotiating Identities: The Case of Evangelical Christian Women in London
… bans on the hijab, and the criminalisation of female circumcision. Research on religious women creates a binary juxtaposition between religion as an oppressive force, on the one hand, and religion as a means of emancipation for women, on the other. These accounts fail to address how religious …
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The geography of HIV/AIDS and an assessment of risk factor perspectives in Nigeria: the case of Benin City and Makurdi
… international sex trafficking of young females, international peacekeeping activities of Nigerian army officers, the presence of certain cultural practices such as wife inheritance and female circumcision, and more importantly the unequal gender relationships that greatly favor men over …
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Female Genital Mutilation: Why Does It Continue To Be A Social And Cultural Force?
… factors contributing to the persistence of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) among Somalis in the Diaspora and in Somalia. Starting with an extensive review of the literature, I identify possible critical factors that sustain FGM. I proceeded to test those factors from the literature against …
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Domestication of the protocol to the African Charter on the rights of women in Africa: the Nigerian religio-cultural perspective
… the denial of women rights in Nigeria, such as female genital mutilation, widowhood rites and practices, child/forced marriage, and the denial of female inheritance. Furthermore, research findings reveal the ten common factors that propel discrimination against women within the three main …
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The Impact of Criminalisation on Female Genital Mutilation in England: From the Perspective of Women and Stakeholders
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a global problem that stems from gender inequality. Increased migration from countries that perform FGM to England has led to the practice travelling across borders. FGM is subject to heightened political debate and media sensitivity in the England and across the …
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The continuation of female genital mutilation in Nigeria: a mixed methods study of Igbo men’s views and perpetuating factors
Background/Aim: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a harmful practice involving the partial or total cutting of the external female genital organs or other injuries to the female genitalia for non-medical purposes. The views and attitudes of women towards FGM are widely researched and known. …
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Female Genital Mutilation and Marital Satisfaction among Kenyan Females
The pernicious practice identified as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) comprises of various procedures that damage female genitalia for non-therapeutic intentions and is widely considered a human rights violation. Globally, tangled cultural and religious traditions are responsible for perpetuating …
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A comparison between traditional and modern circumcision practices in the prevention of HIV and other STIs transmission in Chavuma and Kapiri Mposhi districts.
… made a comparison between traditional and modern circumcision practices in the prevention of HIV and other STIs transmission in Chavuma and Kapiri Mposhi districts. Zambia is a multi-cultural society, characterized by different racial, ethnic, religious, and traditional groupings. These have …
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A comparison between traditional and modern circumcision practices in the prevention of HIV and other STIs transmission in Chavuma and Kapiri Mposhi districts.
… made a comparison between traditional and modern circumcision practices in the prevention of HIV and other STIs transmission in Chavuma and Kapiri Mposhi districts. Zambia is a multi-cultural society, characterized by different racial, ethnic, religious, and traditional groupings. These have …