Female genital mutilation, also known as female genital cutting, is a deeply rooted cultural practice in more than 28 African countries, parts of the middle east, and pockets of Asia. Annually, an estimated 2 million girls come of age in such areas.1 Support for the practice in communities is broad-based. Mothers, mothers-in-law, fathers, and religious and community leaders defend the practice ...

ost people in African societies still shy away from an open discussion about women’s sexuality and sexual choices. The claim that making the personal political is ‘Western’ and ‘un-African’ has been widely accepted. Therefore, challenging discrimination on the grounds of sex as a human rights issue is dismissed as ‘un-African’ – implying that the widespread acts of violence against women have b...

I have recently started university and moved away from home, and also I have met a guy who is now my boyfriend; it is going to be three weeks since we started dating and it has all been really good. We also have already started talking about making love and my boyfriend isn't forcing me into anything, and when I'm with him, it feels right, but the only thing that is bothering me is the fact it ...

I have recently started university and moved away from home, and also I have met a guy who is now my boyfriend; it is going to be three weeks since we started dating and it has all been really good. We also have already started talking about making love and my boyfriend isn't forcing me into anything, and when I'm with him, it feels right, but the only thing that is bothering me is the fact it ...

I have recently started university and moved away from home, and also I have met a guy who is now my boyfriend; it is going to be three weeks since we started dating and it has all been really good. We also have already started talking about making love and my boyfriend isn't forcing me into anything, and when I'm with him, it feels right, but the only thing that is bothering me is the fact it ...

From a psychoanalytic perspective and taking the contributions of feminist studies categories marvelous neo-baroque, two erotic stories by Marosa di Giorgio de Poemas (1953) Camino las pedrerías (1997) are analyzed, where scenes presented dissident marriages, emancipated or transgressors family, religious cultural mandates. In them, unexpected union between sexes occurs, crossing species, genre...

The paper presents the origins of John Chrysostom's teaching on widowhood. author analyses most important factors that contributed to shaping John’s aimed at widows. first factor was his personal experience, such as relationship with mother or befriended second being under a strong influence St. Paul’s teachings, especially Letter Ephesians and First Corinthians. last consequence John's distinc...