Female Circumcision & Women’s Rights Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a procedure that involves the removal of the external female genitalia for cultural or non- medical reasons. Female circumcision is common in Sub- Saharan Africa and the Arab States where more than 125 million girls and women today have been forced to undergo female circumcision ( WHO‚2014). Female circumcision is performed mostly on young girls between the ages of infancy and 15. Female genital mutilation is practiced in
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1 Female Circumcision: A Sociological Perspective Aaron Robins Joe Pellegrino Prof. Romain Sociology 101 November 29‚ 2005 Female Circumcision: A Sociological Perspective Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) or a less ethnocentric term Female Circumcision is a form of violence that is approved by the societies in which it is practiced. About 183 million women have undergone such mutilation. The geographic areas of practice include North-East Africa and parts
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The perception of the perfect female body image always differs depending on who is asked. To some‚ the ideal body image requires constant transformation whether it is through plastic surgery or artwork such as piercings and tattoos. The body image is perceived as “the picture of our own body which we form in our mind‚ that is to say the way in which the body appears to ourselves”. (eating disorders 87) This perception is believed to have been integrated into the minds of individuals since a young
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FEMALE CIRCUMCISION AND KENYAN LAW: A CASE STUDY Michael A. Stanfield Bioethics Program Iowa State University TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Introductory Materials Activity Activity Schedule Interest Groups Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Organization (MYWO) Resource 1: Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya Resource 2: Alternative Rite to Female Circumcision Resource 3: Girls Flee Circumcision in Kenya Kenyan Government Representatives Resource 1: Female Genital Mutilation Cases Rise Resource 2: Minister
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The horror of female genital mutilation is a global issue‚ and it is also one surprising foreign to Americans although an estimated ten thousand girls in the United States are currently at risk of this operation (Sarkis par. 1). This is a cultural practice that is both unethical and incredibly detrimental to its victims besides obviously being in direct violation of basic human rights. In order to attain a broader view of this issue the following will be examined: basic information about this
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Female Circumcision medically referred as a clitoridectomy. It is a surgical procedure to alter or remove female genitalia. In other countries such as the UK (United Kingdom)‚ this procedure is known as “Female Genital Mutilation” and is currently illegal in the United States. In the UK there are an estimated 137‚000 women affected by this procedure. In eastern Africa female circumcision is known as the procedure called Infibulation. The clitoris and the inner and outer labia are to be removed
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DATE RECEIVED: 04 JUNE 2014 TIME : 1100 LECTURER’S INITIALS: Contents LECTURER’S COMMENTS / GRADE 2 Introduction This project requires me to conduct research on female slim images in advertising‚ focus on a problem of negative impactions of advertising images of slim female models and beauty stereotypes1 and answer a research question “how slim images in advertising effect on women’s behavior?”. In the research topic I am writing about issues that inspired to highlight
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that of female body modification‚ or very commonly known as female circumcision. To those brought up being taught that women should always be seen as objects that should not be harmed‚ female genital mutilation seems a practice too vile to even consider. Many have argued that “FGM has disastrous health effects‚ combined with the social injustices it perpetuates constitute a barrier to the overall African development” (Shweder) and that it was “devised [as a] brutal means… to curb female sexual desire
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scraped and burnt away. Female genital mutilation also known as female circumcision is the focus of my speech today. By the time I finish speaking‚ you will agree that this has got to stop! Today I will explain what FGM is; what are the effects of the procedure and why it is still being performed today. So going back.... What is female Genital Mutilation? FGM is a procedure of partial or total removal of the external female genitalia and/or injury to the female genital organs. There
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Female Genital Mutilation in Cultures The traditional and cultural practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) is slowly and increasingly becoming a controversial debate around the world. This dispute involves the violation of the human rights of girls and women as well as deals with its cultural norms and the severe health complications it oftentimes causes. The author‚ Martha Nussbaum‚ from the book‚ Sex & Social Justice‚ argues and criticizes against the tradition of female “circumcision”‚ in
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