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Religious Differences in Female Genital Cutting: A Case Study from Burkina Faso

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 2011 June; 50(2): 252-271 Religious Differences in Female Genital Cutting: A Case Study from Burkina Faso Hayford SR, Trinitapoli J ABSTRACT The relationship between religious obligations and female genital cutting is explored using data from Burkina Faso, a religiously and ethnically diverse country where approximately three-quarters of adultContinue reading “Religious Differences in Female Genital Cutting: A Case Study from Burkina Faso”

Female genital cutting in southern urban and peri-urban Nigeria: self-reported validity, social determinants and secular decline

Trop Med Int Health. 2002 Jan; 7(1): 91-100 Female genital cutting in southern urban and peri-urban Nigeria: self-reported validity, social determinants and secular decline Snow RC, Slanger TE, Okonofua FE, Oronsaye F, Wacke RJ ABSTRACT Despite growing public resistance to the practice of female genital cutting (FGC), documentation of its prevalence, social correlates or trendsContinue reading “Female genital cutting in southern urban and peri-urban Nigeria: self-reported validity, social determinants and secular decline”