The Perfidy of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) among the Girl Children with Examples from a Few African Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12322166 |
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| Authors | M Kang’ethe (0000-0001-9150-0235, University of Fort Hare, corresponding author), S M Kang’ethe (University of Fort Hare, P/B X1314, Alice, South Africa) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-107 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies on Ethno-Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0973-5070 • E-ISSN: 2456-6772 |
| Publisher | Kamla Raj Enterprises (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09735070.2015.11905426 |
| OpenAlex | W2769943312 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The present paper pits health rights of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) initiates against possible cultural benefits from the practice. The paper is a review of literature. Findings indicate that FGM/C sacrifices the rights of the girl children to education; violates their health rights; the act is inhuman and causes physical, psychological, and emotional trauma; stifles children’s rights to decision making pertaining to their lives; the act negatively intereferes with the initiates’ future reproductive sexual health; and could be a leeway to disease contraction such HIV/AIDS. In addition, the paper identifies the following as possible factors to a lagged-out process of abandoning the practice:cultural identity; observance of rites of passage; serving partriachal and religious norms; forum of strengthening cultural leadership; tool of enhancing sexuality and controlling sexual libido; having human rights viewed as a tool of colonialists and imperialists; and applying western models and methodologies in the campaign against FGM/C. The paper suggests the following strategies to attempt to completely annihilate FGM: banning the rite; mainstreaming culturally sensitive education; increasing advocacy and lobbying against it; increasing the number of human rights NGOs to fight it; countries to domesticate child friendly instruments; and adopting a community development approach to tackling FGM/C
Biology · Developmental psychology · Female circumcision · Girl · Gynecology · Sex organ · Sociology · Demography · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues · Genital Health and Disease · Medicine · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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