The campaign against Female Genital Cutting
Empowering women or reinforcing global inequity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12902117 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susie Latham (Curtin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 108-121 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17496535.2016.1167227 |
| OpenAlex | W2320881001 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 11 |
This paper explores the issue of Female Genital Cutting (FGC), starting with the story of how the practice changed and was permanently abandoned in a single generation in a rural Iranian town in the 1950s. Two striking features of this example—its direction by religious men, and the shift to less severe forms of FGC before total abandonment—challenge contemporary orthodoxy on ending FGC. Further, the minimal impact that this FGC abandonment had on the lives of girls and women raises the question of whether the attention and resources currently spent on FGC abandonment programmes might provide a greater benefit to communities if spent differently. In the context of most FGC practicing communities facing multiple significant challenges to their well-being, including food shortages, extreme poverty and poor health and education infrastructure, this paper asks whether ending FGC is as high a priority for practicing communities as it is for the international donors who largely fund abandonment programmes
Abandonment (legal · Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic shortage · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics · Political science · Poverty · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Genital Health and Disease · Law
Effect of Female Genital Mutilation on Sexual Function in Ibadan, Nigeria
Tackling the Triad of Trouble
Medical narrative and religious norm driving cut type and medicalization changes in female genital mutilation/cutting in Somaliland
Genital Cutting as Gender Oppression
Against legalising female ‘circumcision’ of minors
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |