“Damaged genitals”—Cut women's perceptions of the effect of female genital cutting on sexual function. A qualitative study from Sweden [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2022 Female genital cutting (FGC) is a traditional practice, commonly underpinned by cultural values regarding female sexuality, that involves the cutting of women's external genitalia, often entailing the removal of clitoral tissue and/or closing the vaginal
Malin Jordal +3 more
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Negotiating Female Genital Cutting in a Transnational Context [PDF]
Qual Health Res, 2021 In this article, we explore migrant Somali and Sudanese women’s reflections and decision-making regarding female genital cutting in a transnational context wherein women are compelled to maneuver between contradictory social norms.
R. Johansen, Salma A. E. Ahmed
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Education, Class, and Female Genital Cutting among the Samburu of Northern Kenya: Challenging the Reproduction of the “Ignorant Pastoralist” Narrative in Anticutting Campaigns [PDF]
Violence Against Women, 2022 Based on ethnographic research among the Samburu of northern Kenya, this article examines the association between formal education and the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C).
Hannelore Van Bavel
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Emotional Health Work of Women With Female Genital Cutting Prior to Reproductive Health Care Encounters [PDF]
Qual Health Res, 2021 We used institutional ethnography to explore the social relations that shaped the reproductive health care experiences of women with female genital cutting. Interviews with eight women revealed that they engaged in discourse that opposed the practices of
D. Jacobson +3 more
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Barriers and facilitators to the access to specialized female genital cutting healthcare services: Experiences of Somali and Sudanese women in Norway [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Background Girls and women subjected to female genital cutting (FGC) risk experiencing obstetrical, gynecological, sexual, and psychological health problems.
M. Ziyada, R. Johansen
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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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Available evidence suggests that prevalence and risk of female genital cutting/mutilation in the UK is much lower than widely presumed - policies based on exaggerated estimates are harmful to girls and women from affected communities [PDF]
Int J Impot Res, 2022 It is widely reported that ‘tens of thousands of girls’ are living in the UK with the risk of experiencing Female Genital Cutting or Mutilation (FGC/M). This paper reviews the data on which such claims are based.
Saffron Karlsen +4 more
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Cohort analysis of the state of female genital cutting in Nigeria: prevalence, daughter circumcision and attitude towards its discontinuation [PDF]
BMC Womens Health, 2021 Background Female genital cutting (FGC) inflicts life-long injuries on women and their female children. It constitutes a violation of women’s fundamental human rights and threats to bodily integrity. Though decreasing, the practice is high and widespread
B. Gbadebo +5 more
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Female genital cutting (FGC) type: proposing a multifaceted, interactive method for FGC self-assessment. [PDF]
J Sex Med, 2023 C. Johnson-Agbakwu +5 more
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Beautiful vulvas: expanding illustrative visual imagery of female genital cutting types. [PDF]
J Sex Med, 2023 N. Chaisson +6 more
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