Why are current efforts to eliminate female circumcision in Ethiopia misplaced
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15098141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jo Boyden (University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1111-1123 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13691058.2012.726743 |
| PMID | 23030606 |
| OpenAlex | W2057043908 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 26 |
This paper discusses the eradication challenges of female circumcision in Ethiopia. It argues that despite an overall decline in the practice nationally, eradication efforts have caused significant quandaries for girls and their families. The most common justification by far for its continuance is that circumcision confirms a girl's social place by proving her readiness for marriage and adulthood and thereby ensures her protection against material want. Hence, intervention has often resulted in the transformation, rather than the elimination, of the practice, the exchange of one type of risk for another, or even increased risk to girls. In discussing policy, the paper argues that there has been a misapplication of the risk concept in the promotion of change in Ethiopia. It calls for risk definitions and interventions that are more holistic, correspond more closely with children's social realities and take into account the phenomenological dimensions of experience
Continuance · Developmental psychology · Economic growth · Economics · Girl · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues · Genital Health and Disease · Law · Legal and cultural studies analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
What interventions are effective to prevent or respond to female genital mutilation? A review of existing evidence from 2008–2020
‘Motherhood in Childhood’
Sexual violence and motherhood among women with disabilities in Ambo Town, Ethiopia
The 2009 Malaysian Female Circumcision Fatwa
Understanding the Lived Experiences of Women Underwent Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Bichena Town, North-Western Ethiopia
Paradoxes of awareness raising in development
Understanding different positions on female genital cutting among Maasai and Samburu communities in Kenya
What counts as mutilation—and who should decide? Disrupting dominant discourses on genital cutting and modification
People will talk about her if she is not circumcised
Abandoning female genital mutilation/cutting (FGMC) is an emerging but costly parental investment strategy in rural Ethiopia
Engaging Cultural Differences
The Female Circumcision Controversy
Transactional Regulation
Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries
Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries
Growing rejection of female genital cutting among women of reproductive age in Amhara, Ethiopia
The social vagina
Socio‐cultural dynamics of female genital cutting
Community understandings of childhood transitions in Ethiopia
Disputing the myth of the sexual dysfunction of circumcised women
Mutilation and Beautification
Concluding reflections
Male complications of female genital mutilation
Child protection and harmful traditional practices
Contingency, Context, and Change
Female Genital Surgeries
From Health to Human Rights
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |