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Female Genital Cutting or Circumcision

open access: yesNursing & Healthcare International Journal, 2023
Woman genital slicing additionally referred to as woman genital mutilation or circumcision, is a deeply rooted cultural exercise that entails the partial or overall elimination of outside lady genitalia for non-scientific reasons. Despite being extensively criticized for its bodily and psychological fitness dangers, as well as its violation of human ...
openaire   +1 more source

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A Global Concern [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a human rights issue that affects girls and women worldwide. As such, its elimination is a global concern.

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Male and Female Genital Cutting: Between the Best Interest of the Child and Genital Mutilation

open access: yesOxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2020
In the UK, male genital cutting is in principle legal and may even be ordered by a court, whereas female genital cutting is a criminal offence. The coherence of this approach was recently questioned by Munby P in Re B and G (children) (No 2); the ...
K. Moller
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Analysis of Major Issues for Culturally-Minded Professionals in Women\u27s Health Care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Women\u27s health care professionals, such as general physicians, obstetricians and gynecologists, midwives, nurses, and doulas, in the US need to be aware of cultural issues and disparities.
Clark, Victoria
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Using Rights to Counter “Gender-Specific” Wrongs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
One popular strategy of opposition to practices of female genital cutting (FCG) is rooted in the global feminist movement. Arguing that women’s rights are human rights, global feminists contend that practices of FGC are a culturally specific ...
Tobin, Theresa
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Improving care for women and girls who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting: qualitative systematic reviews

open access: yesHealth Services and Delivery Research, 2019
Background: In a context of high migration, there are growing numbers of women living in the UK who have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting.
Catrin Evans   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

What do we know about assessing healthcare students and professionals’ knowledge, attitude and practice regarding female genital mutilation? A systematic review

open access: yesReproductive Health, 2017
Introduction Improving healthcare providers’ capacities of prevention and treatment of female genital mutilation (FGM) is important given the fact that 200 million women and girls globally are living with FGM.
Jasmine Abdulcadir   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Auto-spermatophore extrusion in male crickets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The reproductive cycle of the male cricket consists of the mating stage and the sexually refractory stage. The latter is further divided into the first refractory stage (RS1) from spermatophore extrusion in copulation to spermatophore preparation after ...
Kumashiro, Mikihiko   +2 more
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Towards a solution concerning female genital mutilation? An approach from within according to Islamic legal opinions

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2011
Female circumcision is a tradition that is widespread and not restricted to predominantly Muslim countries. It is prevalent among all religious groups in many parts of Africa and Western Asia, whether they are Coptic Christians, Ethiopian Jews, or Arab ...
Jens Kutscher
doaj   +1 more source

Human Female Genital Tract Infection by the Obligate Intracellular Bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis Elicits Robust Type 2 Immunity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
While Chlamydia trachomatis infections are frequently asymptomatic, mechanisms that regulate host response to this intracellular Gram-negative bacterium remain undefined.
AL Graham   +42 more
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