Assessment of complications associated with female genital cutting among postnatal women in Chuko Primary Hospital, Sidama region, Southern Ethiopia [PDF]
SAGE Open Medicine, 2023 Objectives: Female genital cutting is a genital operation for a nonmedical reason and involves the cutting away of a part or whole of the female external genitals.
Yirgalem Yosef +2 more
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Social media representation of female genital cutting: A YouTube analysis [PDF]
Women's Health, 2020 Introduction: Female genital cutting is a practice that has incited controversy and conflicting discourses across the international community. There is a need to analyze social media data on the portrayal of the practice in order to gather insights and ...
Arone Wondwossen Fantaye, Anne TM Konkle
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The risk of female genital cutting in Europe: Comparing immigrant attitudes toward uncut girls with attitudes in a practicing country [PDF]
SSM: Population Health, 2017 Worldwide, an estimated 200 million girls and women have been subjected to female genital cutting. Female genital cutting is defined as an intentional injury to the female genitalia without medical justification.
Sonja Vogt, Charles Efferson, Ernst Fehr
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The relationship between dominant Western discourse and personal narratives of female genital cutting: exploring storytelling among Swedish-Somali girls and women [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 IntroductionA dominant narrative, referred to as “the standard tale,” prevails in popular representations about female genital cutting (FGC) that often contrast with how cut women traditionally narrate their FGC experience as meaningful in contexts where
Camilla Palm +4 more
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The benefits and disappointments following clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting: A qualitative interview study from Sweden. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Female genital cutting or mutilation refers to the cutting of girls' external genitalia. Due to migration from contexts where female genital cutting is common, it is estimated that around 38 000 cut women and girls live in Sweden. Clitoral reconstruction,
Malin Jordal +3 more
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Female Genital Mutilation, Cutting, or Circumcision [PDF]
Obstetrics and Gynecology International, 2013 Female genital mutilation (FGM), female genital cutting, or female circumcision of women, the theme addressed in this special issue has many terms. The short form acronym FGM is understood by most, and it does contain the notion that we are talking about a traditional practice that is harmful.
Johanne Sundby +2 more
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Debating medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): learning from (policy) experiences across countries [PDF]
Reproductive Health, 2019 Background Although Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is internationally considered a harmful practice, it is increasingly being medicalized allegedly to reduce its negative health effects, and is thus suggested as a harm reduction strategy in ...
Els Leye +5 more
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Female genital cutting in Malaysia: a mixed-methods study [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2019 Objective This study aimed to understand the reasons for the practice by the Muslim community, traditional practitioners and the views of religious scholars as well as the medicalisation trend of the practice of female genital cutting (FGC).Design This ...
Abdul Rashid, Yufu Iguchi
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Symptomatic Clitoral Neuroma within an Epidermal Inclusion Cyst at the Site of Prior Female Genital Cutting [PDF]
Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2019 Background. Clitoral neuromas occurring after female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) can vary in presentation and may require surgical management. Case.
Dani Zoorob +3 more
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Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 2004 In this issue of Acta Dr Abdul-Almawla Kangoum and co-authors publish a survey on female genital mutilation – now called female genital cutting (FGC) – in a Swedish county. The survey was basically carried out as a questionnaire including an invitation to an interview and a clinical examination.
Bettina Shell-Duncan, Ylva Hernlund
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