Egyptian Activism against Female Genital Cutting as Catachrestic Claiming
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Prevalence of female genital cutting among Egyptian girls.
OBJECTIVE Female genital cutting (FGC) is the collective name given to traditional practices that involve partial or total cutting away of the female external genitalia whether for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons. In Egypt, the result of the Demographic Health Survey in 2000 revealed that 97% of married women included in the survey experienced FGC. The aim of this study is to measure ...
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OBJECTIVES To study the prevalence of female genital cutting (FGC) in a nulliparous population admitted for childbirth. In addition, the type of FGC, the motives supporting FGC and perineal damage associated with this practice were evaluated. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted in the labor ward, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Assiut University Hos...
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عنوان ژورنال: Religion and Gender
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2589-8051,1878-5417
DOI: 10.1163/18785417-00302005