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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Female genital mutilation"”.
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Effects of female genital mutilation on childbirth
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is defined by the World Health Organisation as the deliberate total or partial removal of the external female genitalia, or other deliberate injury to the female genitalia, which is carried out for non-therapeutic purposes. The practice is widely condemned. …
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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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Why does family law treat female genital mutilation and circumcision differently?
… Wales draws a fundamental distinction between female genital mutilation (‘FGM’) and circumcision. The former is a criminal abuse of human rights which, for the purposes of section 31 of the Children Act 1989, can never fall within the ambit of reasonable parenting. The latter is, in principle, …
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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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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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Healing beyond the scars of female genital mutilation (FGM): the experiences of Somali women in England with therapeutic interventions
… of Somali women in the UK who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) or FGM reversal. It focuses on participants' perceptions of psychological interventions and, from these experiences, assesses the cultural competence of therapeutic interventions, addressing a significant gap in 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 (FGM): An analysis of the silences in maternity care experiences of FGM survivors and the silences of health care professionals providing maternity care to FGM survivors
The consequences of female genital mutilation (FGM) during the perinatal period are significant, but the experiences of FGM survivors accessing maternity care are under-reported in the literature. This thesis reports on the analysis of experiences of FGM survivors in maternity care and the …
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Female Agency in Religious Disassembly of Culture: Where Do Women Fit In?
… Some focus is placed on Alice Walker's views on female genital mutilation and how that was impacted by Christian viewpoints. Theoretical perspectives from Homi Bhabha and Chandra Mohanty emphasize the role of so-called "third world women" in world politics and feminism. </p>
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Sisters Before the Fall
… include general repression of women and girls, female genital mutilation, marriage of prepubescent girls, and the slave trade. A female American volunteer and a female Hispanic doctor meet these women in a humanitarian compound in western Sudan. As they work together to overcome challenges …
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An investigation of the causes of gender based violence in Kwa-Nongoma area
… abuse, emotional and psychological abuse, female genital mutilation, forced marriage, infanticide of female children, and discriminatory practice based on gender. For data collection purposes, the study used qualitative research method which allows researcher to interview targeted …
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Les Mutilations Genitales Feminines Dans La Litterature Et Le Film Francophones
… to the U.N, no fewer than five girls undergo genital mutilation every minute. They are cut, told that it is the price to be paid for womanhood, to be accepted by the society and fully integrated into it. However, they are never told about the dangerous aspects and the fact that this act may …
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Kukataa: An Afrocentric Exploration of Nongovernmental Organization Refusal in the Context of Female Genital Cutting in Tanzania
Female genital cutting is often depicted in media spheres through numerical statistics and one to two-lined captions that do not effectively capture the full humanity of the Black girls and women they are describing. The numerical statistics and pictorial captions provide myopic and ahistorical …
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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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Traditional Institutions as Change Agents: Understanding Cultural Norms and Practices Promoting Gender-Based Violence in Nigerian Communities
… found that cultural norms such as gender roles, female genital mutilation, and child marriage are widely prevalent, with traditional institutions like kings, chiefs, and religious leaders significantly shaping these norms. A substantial majority of respondents (71.3%) acknowledged the influential …
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Exploring the inalienable rights of children: a case study of FGM to highlight gaps in safeguarding children in the United States
… the rights of the child through a case study of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the United States and the United Kingdom. Prosecutions for FGM have been rare and not successful and child abuse cases in the United States continue to rise in spite of a raft of legislation designed to prevent it. …
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Ακρωτηριασμός γυναικείων γεννητικών οργάνων : Γυναικολογικές και μαιευτικές επιπλοκές
… γεννητικών οργάνων διεθνώς αναγνωρισμένος, ως female genital mutilation (FGM), αποτελεί μια επιβλαβή παραδοσιακή πρακτική που παραβιάζει θεμελιώδη ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα και συνδέεται με σοβαρές βραχυπρόθεσμες και μακροπρόθεσμες επιπτώσεις στη σωματική, αναπαραγωγική και ψυχική υγεία των …
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Confession and intimacy in England, 1851-1913
… violence, suicide, abortion, drug use, and female genital mutilation.
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Seeking the optimal development of Kikuyu women: A qualitative examination of traditional sex roles in Maai Mahiu, Kenya
… within Appalachia (Rezek, 2010), South Asian female immigrants (Talbani & Hasanali, 2000), and Kenya as a whole (Simiyu, 2007). Little is known, however, about the socialization of sex roles and phenomenological identity development in rural women from the largest ethnic group in Kenya, the …
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