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For the sake of purity (and control). Female genital mutilation.

Links 1993 Winter;9(5):6-8, 30. For the sake of purity (and control). Female genital mutilation. Gilbert D. ABSTRACT PIP: In 1973 approximately 1 million girls will be victimized by female genital mutilation (FGM), widely practiced in more than 20 African nations from Mauritania to the Ivory Coast in the west, to Egypt and North Tanzania inContinue reading “For the sake of purity (and control). Female genital mutilation.”

Male and female genital cutting among Southern Thailand’s Muslims: rituals, biomedical practice and local discourses

Cult Health Sex. 2010;12(7):725-738 Male and female genital cutting among Southern Thailand’s Muslims: rituals, biomedical practice and local discourses Merli C Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham, UK This paper explores how local people in a province in southern Thailand perceive the practice of male andfemale genital cutting. In order to understand the importance placed on these practices,Continue reading “Male and female genital cutting among Southern Thailand’s Muslims: rituals, biomedical practice and local discourses”