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Female genital cutting (FGC) type: proposing a multifaceted, interactive method for FGC self-assessment. [PDF]

J Sex Med, 2023
Johnson-Agbakwu CE, Chen M, Salad M, Chaisson N, Connor JJ, Robinson BBE.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

'It is what was handed over to us as our heritage and must not be taken away just like that': Traditional birth attendants' attitudes towards the elimination of intergenerational female genital mutilation/cutting in Osun State, Nigeria.

PLOS Global Public Health
Female genital mutilation/cutting is a harmful practice that violates the sexual and reproductive health rights of women and girls. The practice is often perpetrated directly or indirectly from one generation to another as a way of preserving the culture,
Rosemary Omolara Fafowora, Sinegugu Evidence Duma   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

International efforts on abandoning female genital mutilation

African Journal of Urology, 2013
Female genital mutilation (FGM), sometimes referred to as female circumcision or female genital cutting, is a harmful cultural practice without any known health benefit.
E. Edouard, O. Olatunbosun, L. Edouard
doaj   +1 more source

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source

Factors associated with general practitioners' routines and comfortability with assessing female genital cutting: a cross-sectional survey. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res, 2023
Ziyada MM, Johansen REB, Berthelsen M, Lien IL, Bendiksen B.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda [PDF]

, 2008
Explains how girls' welfare affects overall economic and social outcomes. Outlines steps to disaggregate health, education, and other data by age and gender; invest strategically in girls' programs; and ensure equitable benefits for girls in all ...
Caren Grown, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Margaret E. Greene, Ruth Levine   +3 more
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Female Genital Cutting: A Harmless Practice?

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2003
A recent article in Medical Anthropology Quarterly (Obermeyer 1999) argues that the "facts " about the "harmful effects " of female genital cutting (FGC) are "not sufficiently supported by the evidence" (p. 79). The article suggests three further hypotheses, among others: (1) FGC may be of minimal harm because the more educated continue the practice ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Exploring the use of gender‐inclusive language amongst health care students and staff in obstetrics and gynaecology

Medical Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Gender‐inclusive language is increasingly recognised as essential in health care to ensure respectful and equitable care for transgender and gender‐diverse individuals. However, the adoption of gender‐inclusive language in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) may vary across generations and hierarchical levels, and the perspectives of
Debbie Aitken, Georgia Lin, Bhabesh San San Wal, Merryn Rhodes, Mariam Aly, Jack Amiry   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Silene, a versatile model system: from sex and genome evolution to ecology and speciation

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Fundamental and applied research in evolutionary biology benefits from the use of model systems in which approaches from disparate disciplines can be integrated. Here, we review recent progress in evolutionary research on the long‐standing model system Silene, a large genus with a well‐resolved phylogeny and newly available, expanded genomic ...
Sophie Karrenberg, Václav Bačovský, Andrea E. Berardi, Isabelle De Cauwer, Tatiana Giraud, Fanny E. Hartmann, Roman Hobza, Vojtěch Hudzieczek, Gabriel A.B. Marais, Jenna R. Miladin, Bengt Oxelman, Alexander S.T. Papadopulos, Daniel B. Sloan, Janet C. Steven, Helena Štorchová, Pascal Touzet, Fabienne Van Rossum   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of female genital cutting among Egyptian girls

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE: Female genital cutting (FGC) is the collective name given to traditional practices that involve partial or total cutting away of the female external genitalia whether for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons.
Mohammed A Tag-Eldin, Mohsen A Gadallah, Mahmoud N Al-Tayeb, Mostafa Abdel-Aty, Esmat Mansour, Mona Sallem   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source