R Elise B Johansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 128429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Elise B Johansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Elise B |
| FAMILY NAME | Johansen |
| SIGNATURE | JOHANSEN R E B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6666-6978 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Kroppslige praksiser, erfaring og endring -tvetydige diskurser om kvinnelig omskjæring blant norsk-somaliere
Den dominerende diskursen om kjønnslemlestelse blant personer med somalisk bakgrunn omhandler endring fra faraonisk til sunna-omskjæring. Diskursen, som foregår transnasjonalt, gir inntrykk av konsensus om en vesentlig endring i både anatomisk omfang og kulturell mening. Gjennom en analyse av data fra intervjuer og fokusgruppediskusjoner med 97 norsk-somaliske kvinner og menn i 2017 og 2018, samt etnografisk feltarbeid, analyserer jeg denne disku…
Damaged genitals”—Cut women's perceptions of the effect of female genital cutting on sexual function. A qualitative study from Sweden
Female genital cutting (FGC) is a traditional practice, commonly underpinned by cultural values regarding female sexuality, that involves the cutting of women's external genitalia, often entailing the removal of clitoral tissue and/or closing the vaginal orifice. As control of female sexual libido is a common rationale for FGC, international concern has been raised regarding its potential negative effect on female sexuality. Most studies attempti…
The Applicability of the Theory of Planned Behavior for Research and Care of Female Genital Cutting
Negotiating Female Genital Cutting in a Transnational Context
In this article, we explore migrant Somali and Sudanese women's reflections and decision-making regarding female genital cutting in a transnational context wherein women are compelled to maneuver between contradictory social norms. These include traditional norms, which consider the practice to be associated with socially acceptable sexuality and reproduction, and international norms, which consider the practice to be a violation of sexual and re…
Résistance à l’infibulation et à la désinfibulation. Changement des pratiques et persistance des valeurs en Norvège
L’« excision pharaonique », un type de mutilation génitale féminine créant une fermeture des parties génitales féminines, est associée à des valeurs culturelles essentiellement liées au genre et à la sexualité : la virginité et la vertu pour les femmes, le plaisir sexuel, la virilité, et la paternité pour les hommes. Afin que ces valeurs soient respectées, des infibulations doivent être opérées de bonne heure et conservées intactes jusqu’au maria…
Negotiating Female Genital Cutting as a Difficult Characteristic in Kurdish National Identity
Based on fieldwork among Kurds in Norway, this article explores how participants described the presence of female genital cutting (FGC) in Kurdistan as a difficult topic to address in public. Perceptions of how FGC should be addressed ranged from acknowledging and directly confronting it to silencing and rejecting it as a Kurdish practice. The participants associated FGC with a 'traditional mindset' and perceptions of female sexuality that did no…
Estimating the magnitude of female genital mutilation/cutting in Norway
Reliable estimates on FGM/C are important for evidence-based policies. The study findings indicate that about 17,300 women and girls in Norway can be in need of health care, in particular the 9100 who are estimated to have type III. Preventive and protective measures are also needed to protect girls at risk (3000 to 7900) from being subjected to FGM/C. Nevertheless, as there are no appropriate tools at the moment that can single these girls out o…
Estimates of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in 27 African Countries and Yemen
The practice of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has been documented in many countries in Africa and in several countries in Asia and the Middle East, yet producing reliable data concerning its prevalence and the numbers of girls and women affected has proved a major challenge. This study provides estimates of the total number of women aged 15 years and older who have undergone FGM/C in 27 African countries and Yemen. Drawing on national…
When female circumcision comes to the West
The study reveals that Somalis in Oslo demonstrate a trend to abandon this practice over time. Nevertheless, the 30% of the people who still support its continuation, and who are primarily newly arrived immigrants, require a targeted intervention that is implemented in the early phase of the immigrants' arrival
Care for Infibulated Women Giving Birth in Norway
The focus of this article is on Norwegian health care workers' experience and management of birth care of women who have undergone infibulation. Because infibulation is the most extensive form of female genital cutting, infibulated women experience a higher risk of birth complications, and health workers generally experience delivery care for this group as challenging. Infibulated women, who come from recently arrived immigrant groups, are a chal…
Pain as a Counterpoint to Culture
This article focuses on how some Somali women experience and reflect on the pain of infibulation as a lived bodily experience within shifting social and cultural frameworks. Women interviewed for this study describe such pain as intolerable, as an experience that has made them question the cultural values in which the operation is embedded. Whereas this view has gone largely unvoiced in their natal communities, the Norwegian exile situation in wh…
Pain as a Counterpoint to Culture
This article focuses on how some Somali women experience and reflect on the pain of infibulation as a lived bodily experience within shifting social and cultural frameworks. Women interviewed for this study describe such pain as intolerable, as an experience that has made them question the cultural values in which the operation is embedded. Whereas this view has gone largely unvoiced in their natal communities, the Norwegian exile situation in wh…
Estimates of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in 27 African Countries and Yemen
The practice of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has been documented in many countries in Africa and in several countries in Asia and the Middle East, yet producing reliable data concerning its prevalence and the numbers of girls and women affected has proved a major challenge. This study provides estimates of the total number of women aged 15 years and older who have undergone FGM/C in 27 African countries and Yemen. Drawing on national…
Care for Infibulated Women Giving Birth in Norway
The focus of this article is on Norwegian health care workers' experience and management of birth care of women who have undergone infibulation. Because infibulation is the most extensive form of female genital cutting, infibulated women experience a higher risk of birth complications, and health workers generally experience delivery care for this group as challenging. Infibulated women, who come from recently arrived immigrant groups, are a chal…
Negotiating Female Genital Cutting in a Transnational Context
In this article, we explore migrant Somali and Sudanese women's reflections and decision-making regarding female genital cutting in a transnational context wherein women are compelled to maneuver between contradictory social norms. These include traditional norms, which consider the practice to be associated with socially acceptable sexuality and reproduction, and international norms, which consider the practice to be a violation of sexual and re…
Damaged genitals”—Cut women's perceptions of the effect of female genital cutting on sexual function. A qualitative study from Sweden
Female genital cutting (FGC) is a traditional practice, commonly underpinned by cultural values regarding female sexuality, that involves the cutting of women's external genitalia, often entailing the removal of clitoral tissue and/or closing the vaginal orifice. As control of female sexual libido is a common rationale for FGC, international concern has been raised regarding its potential negative effect on female sexuality. Most studies attempti…
Pain as a Counterpoint to Culture
This article focuses on how some Somali women experience and reflect on the pain of infibulation as a lived bodily experience within shifting social and cultural frameworks. Women interviewed for this study describe such pain as intolerable, as an experience that has made them question the cultural values in which the operation is embedded. Whereas this view has gone largely unvoiced in their natal communities, the Norwegian exile situation in wh…
Care for Infibulated Women Giving Birth in Norway
The focus of this article is on Norwegian health care workers' experience and management of birth care of women who have undergone infibulation. Because infibulation is the most extensive form of female genital cutting, infibulated women experience a higher risk of birth complications, and health workers generally experience delivery care for this group as challenging. Infibulated women, who come from recently arrived immigrant groups, are a chal…
When female circumcision comes to the West
The study reveals that Somalis in Oslo demonstrate a trend to abandon this practice over time. Nevertheless, the 30% of the people who still support its continuation, and who are primarily newly arrived immigrants, require a targeted intervention that is implemented in the early phase of the immigrants' arrival
Estimates of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in 27 African Countries and Yemen
The practice of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has been documented in many countries in Africa and in several countries in Asia and the Middle East, yet producing reliable data concerning its prevalence and the numbers of girls and women affected has proved a major challenge. This study provides estimates of the total number of women aged 15 years and older who have undergone FGM/C in 27 African countries and Yemen. Drawing on national…
Estimating the magnitude of female genital mutilation/cutting in Norway
Reliable estimates on FGM/C are important for evidence-based policies. The study findings indicate that about 17,300 women and girls in Norway can be in need of health care, in particular the 9100 who are estimated to have type III. Preventive and protective measures are also needed to protect girls at risk (3000 to 7900) from being subjected to FGM/C. Nevertheless, as there are no appropriate tools at the moment that can single these girls out o…
Negotiating Female Genital Cutting as a Difficult Characteristic in Kurdish National Identity
Based on fieldwork among Kurds in Norway, this article explores how participants described the presence of female genital cutting (FGC) in Kurdistan as a difficult topic to address in public. Perceptions of how FGC should be addressed ranged from acknowledging and directly confronting it to silencing and rejecting it as a Kurdish practice. The participants associated FGC with a 'traditional mindset' and perceptions of female sexuality that did no…
Résistance à l’infibulation et à la désinfibulation. Changement des pratiques et persistance des valeurs en Norvège
L’« excision pharaonique », un type de mutilation génitale féminine créant une fermeture des parties génitales féminines, est associée à des valeurs culturelles essentiellement liées au genre et à la sexualité : la virginité et la vertu pour les femmes, le plaisir sexuel, la virilité, et la paternité pour les hommes. Afin que ces valeurs soient respectées, des infibulations doivent être opérées de bonne heure et conservées intactes jusqu’au maria…
The Applicability of the Theory of Planned Behavior for Research and Care of Female Genital Cutting
Negotiating Female Genital Cutting in a Transnational Context
In this article, we explore migrant Somali and Sudanese women's reflections and decision-making regarding female genital cutting in a transnational context wherein women are compelled to maneuver between contradictory social norms. These include traditional norms, which consider the practice to be associated with socially acceptable sexuality and reproduction, and international norms, which consider the practice to be a violation of sexual and re…
Damaged genitals”—Cut women's perceptions of the effect of female genital cutting on sexual function. A qualitative study from Sweden
Female genital cutting (FGC) is a traditional practice, commonly underpinned by cultural values regarding female sexuality, that involves the cutting of women's external genitalia, often entailing the removal of clitoral tissue and/or closing the vaginal orifice. As control of female sexual libido is a common rationale for FGC, international concern has been raised regarding its potential negative effect on female sexuality. Most studies attempti…
Kroppslige praksiser, erfaring og endring -tvetydige diskurser om kvinnelig omskjæring blant norsk-somaliere
Den dominerende diskursen om kjønnslemlestelse blant personer med somalisk bakgrunn omhandler endring fra faraonisk til sunna-omskjæring. Diskursen, som foregår transnasjonalt, gir inntrykk av konsensus om en vesentlig endring i både anatomisk omfang og kulturell mening. Gjennom en analyse av data fra intervjuer og fokusgruppediskusjoner med 97 norsk-somaliske kvinner og menn i 2017 og 2018, samt etnografisk feltarbeid, analyserer jeg denne disku…
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues (11 works) · Genital Health and Disease (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Demography (3 works)