Category: Female Circumcision

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• A Centuries-Old Practice, A Deadly Tradition   [rate it] [review it]
  FGM and Religion: A False Connection -- FGM, or female circumcision as it is also but incorrectly known, is practiced by Muslims, Christians, animists, and nonbelievers in a range of communities, often under the mistaken belief that it is a religious dictate. - U.S. Fund for UNICEF 1998

• Articles about Female Circumcision   [rate it] [review it]
  Historical articles in U.S. medicine.

• Common Denominators Between Male and Female Circumcision   [rate it] [review it]
  Lists similarities between male and female circumcision.

• Comparisons Between Male Circumcision and Female "Circumcision"   [rate it] [review it]
  Rising Daughters Aware

• Epidemiology Of Female Sexual Castration In Cairo, Egypt   [rate it] [review it]
  In 1985, a group of 350 urban Egyptian women were selected to self-report on their recall of their female sexual castration (FSC) which they experienced as children.

• Erroneous Belief Systems Underlying Female Genital Mutilation   [rate it] [review it]
  by Hanny Lightfoot­Klein - I first became aware of the existence of what at that time was still euphemistically called "female circumcision" in 1979.

• Female Circumcision Comes to America   [rate it] [review it]
  by Linda Burstyn - Atlantic Monthly, Oct 1995 - Performed by new immigrants, veiled in deference to a cultural tradition of the developing world, female circumcision is becoming an American problem.

• Female Circumcision for Religious and Ritual Purposes   [rate it] [review it]
  Definition and brief analysis of female circumcision.

• Female Circumcision Issues Page   [rate it] [review it]
  The World Health Organization had a conference in February 1979 in Khartoum, Sudan, and unanimously condemned the mutilations as disastrous to womens health and as indefensible on medical as well as humane grounds. In the United States, Rep. Pat Schroeder has written a bill to prohibit female genital mutilation (FGM), H.R. 3247.

• Female Circumcision: Clitorectomy and Infibulations   [rate it] [review it]
  Offers a selection of articles.

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