Sexually destroyed or empowered? Silencing female genital cutting in close relationships

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ID15098435
AutoresIngvild Bergom Lunde (0000-0002-9914-085X, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, autor correspondente), Ragnhild Elise Brinchmann Johansen (Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies), Ragnhild Johansen (Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies), Mona-Iren Hauge (Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies), Mona‐iren Hauge (0000-0002-8608-895X, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies), Mette Sagbakken (0000-0003-0055-476X, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University)
Ano2021
Volume23
Fascículo7
Páginas899-912
Data de publicação2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691058.2020.1738553
PMID32223525
OpenAlexW3013634848
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas17

Based on fieldwork among Kurdish-Norwegian migrants, this study explored how female genital cutting (FGC) was a silenced topic between mothers and daughters, and between men and women. The silence was often broken when FGC was discussed as a practice that needed to be rejected. The main reasons for rejecting FGC were to support women's rights and to recognise the negative ways in which FGC affected women's sexuality. This way of breaking the silence on FGC was particularly helpful to some husbands and wives in their discussion of how FGC might have affected their sexual relationships. Using theories of migrant women's sexual agency and embodiment, this study examined how the silencing of FGC in close relationships can be interpreted both as a sign of oppression and as a sign of empowerment. The analysis suggests that the stigmatisation that circumcised women can experience from condemnatory public discourse on FGC may sometimes lead to the negotiation of assertive female sexuality

Agency (philosophy · Empowerment · Human sexuality · Negotiation · Norwegian · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Sign (mathematics · Silence · Sociology · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Genital Health and Disease · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology