Female Genital Mutilation: A Socio-Cultural Gang Up Against Womanhood
This article uses the voices of women to investigate the horror of the cultural practice of female genital mutilation. Case studies graphically illustrate the way in which the bodies of young girls are literally moulded for male satisfaction, physical, religious and cultural. Female genital mutilati...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Sage
2010
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Feminist theology
Jahr: 2010, Band: 18, Heft: 2, Seiten: 192-205 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Violence against women
B Religion B cultural practice B Nigeria B Female Genital Mutilation |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article uses the voices of women to investigate the horror of the cultural practice of female genital mutilation. Case studies graphically illustrate the way in which the bodies of young girls are literally moulded for male satisfaction, physical, religious and cultural. Female genital mutilation is a socio-cultural offensive against women and young girls which we would join with female theologians in condemning. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0966735009348667 |