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The lived experience of female genital cutting (FGC) in Somali-Canadian women's daily lives. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2018
Jacobson D   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Female Genital Cutting

Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 2013
The Journal of Global Health at Columbia University, Vol. 3 No.
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Female Genital Cutting

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Reproductive Medicine, 2008
Abstract Female genital cutting is increasingly been seen in Western countries, and is estimated that worldwide about 120 million girls have undergone some form of FGM. The WHO has outlawed it on the grounds that it is a violation of human rights. There are almost always wrong traditional, cultural, and religious beliefs related to the practice. Type
Salem A. El-Shawarby, Janice Rymer
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The Economics of Female Genital Cutting

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
Abstract The practice of female genital cutting (FGC) has a long history in Africa and it is thought that over 130 million females alive today have undergone the practice. In this paper, we model FGC as a pre-marital investment. We show how the rat-race nature of the marriage market may result in inefficiently high equilibrium levels ...
Chesnokova, T., Vaithianathan, R.
openaire   +4 more sources

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