Ekimeeza webpage. MAY 21, 2012 ELONGATION: OKUKYALIRA ENSIKO, the Buganda way of enhancing sexual pleasure (No author) EXTRACT Humanity’s pursuit for merit is not restricted to the open. Even in utmost privacy, when the matter at hand is entirely the business of a secretive twosome, mankind has always sought to excel and impress. To many men,Continue reading “ELONGATION: OKUKYALIRA ENSIKO, the Buganda way of enhancing sexual pleasure”
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Violated: Women’s Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
Human Rights & Human Welfare Journal. Topical review Digest: Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa digest. Violated: Women’s Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa By Kathryn Birdwell Wester EXTRACT: In contemporary sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), women are facing human rights abuses unparalleled elsewhere in the world. Despite the region’s diversity, its female inhabitants largely share experiences of sexual discrimination andContinue reading “Violated: Women’s Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa”
The right to culture and the culture of rights: a critical perspective on women’s sexual rights in Africa
Feminist Legal Studies. Apr 2008 16(1):47 The right to culture and the culture of rights: a critical perspective on women’s sexual rights in Africa Tamale S NO ABSTRACT AVAILABLE FOR THIS PAPER This paper can be accessed in this LINK
Women’s Sexuality as a Site of Control & Resistance: Views on the African Context
Keynote Address delivered at the International Conference on Bride price under the theme, “Coalition and Action to Safeguard Women and Children in the Family, “under the auspices of the Mifumi Project, February 17, 2004 at Makerere University, Kampala Women’s Sexuality as a Site of Control & Resistance: Views on the African Context Tamale S FacultyContinue reading “Women’s Sexuality as a Site of Control & Resistance: Views on the African Context”
“A CASE OF CULTURE GONE AWRY”
Masters in Women’s Law Programme, Southern and Eastern Africa Regional Women’s Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe. (2008) “A case of culture gone awry”: An investigation of female initiation ceremonies and Nyau dance vigils on the rights of teenage girls to education and sexual reproductive health amongst migrant communities in Norton, Zimbabwe Thabethe SNContinue reading ““A CASE OF CULTURE GONE AWRY””
Preparing for microbicide trials in Rwanda: Focus group discussions with Rwandan women and men
Culture, Health & Sexuality. 2006 8(5): 395-406 Preparing for microbicide trials in Rwanda: Focus group discussions with Rwandan women and men N. Veldhuijzen, J. Nyinawabega, M. Umulisa, B. Kankindi, E. Geubbels, P. Basinga, J. Vyankandondera & J. Van De Wijgert ABSTRACT The acceptability and feasibility of microbicide studies and future microbicide use are influenced by existing norms andContinue reading “Preparing for microbicide trials in Rwanda: Focus group discussions with Rwandan women and men”
Psycholinguistic approaches to ritual labia minora elongation among the Baganda women of Uganda
Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision. 2006, pp 57-64 Psycholinguistic approaches to ritual labia minora elongation among the Baganda women of Uganda Villa E., Grassivaro Gallo P ABSTRACT Ritual elongation of the labia minora is a particular expansive modification of the external genitalia exercised for cultural motives (FGM type 4 – WHO 1996). The practice isContinue reading “Psycholinguistic approaches to ritual labia minora elongation among the Baganda women of Uganda”
Labial Elongation in the Shona
The Central Africa Journal of Medicine. July 1969 15 (7):165-166 Labial Elongation in the Shona Williams J EXTRACT It is a common medical observation that most Shona women have elongated labia minora. Upon external vaginal examination these usually pre~ent as two contiguous bundles of gathered, shrIvelled, loose skin tissue. By including a labial measurement withContinue reading “Labial Elongation in the Shona”
Vaginal practices: eroticism and implications for women’s health and condom use in Mozambique.
Cult Health Sex. 2008 Aug;10(6):573-85. doi: 10.1080/13691050801999071. Vaginal practices: eroticism and implications for women’s health and condom use in Mozambique. Bagnol B, Mariano E. Department of Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. bagnolbrigitte@icon.co.za ABSTRACT This paper analyses two female sexual practices in Tete Province, Mozambique: (1) the practice of elongating the labia minora andContinue reading “Vaginal practices: eroticism and implications for women’s health and condom use in Mozambique.”
Vaginal practices as women’s agency in sub-Saharan Africa: a synthesis of meaning and motivation through meta-ethnography.
Soc Sci Med. 2012 May;74(9):1311-23. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.11.032. Epub 2012 Jan 28. Vaginal practices as women’s agency in sub-Saharan Africa: a synthesis of meaning and motivation through meta-ethnography. Martin Hilber A, Kenter E, Redmond S, Merten S, Bagnol B, Low N, Garside R. University of Bern, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Finkenhubelweg 11, CH-3012 Bern,Continue reading “Vaginal practices as women’s agency in sub-Saharan Africa: a synthesis of meaning and motivation through meta-ethnography.”
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