How To Use female circumcision In A Sentence
- Western women, fully accoutered with nail polish (which is incompatible with manual work), high-heeled shoes (disastrous for the posture and hence the back, and quite unsuitable for walking long distances over bad roads) and brassieres... denounce female circumcision without the shadow of a suspicion that their behavior is absurd. Nomad
- For the first time, the World Health Organisation's annual assembly passed a resolution condemning female circumcision.
- Rooted in paternalistic culture and practiced for centuries, female circumcision in Uganda is thought to protect a girl's chastity by "reducing the urge for sex in women, " Mirundi said.
- Whether it’d be culturally condoned or not, poligamy is wrong; female circumcision is wrong; the general opression of women and the impellent force to have them be subservient to men are wrong. Feminism, Multiculturalism, and Teacherly Moments
- Josephine Macauley, a staunch opponent of female circumcision, remarked in the Electronic Mail & Guardian that the practice is ‘cruel, unprogressive and a total abuse of the children's rights.’
- Recent surveys also show that two-thirds of Egyptian girls aged 10-14 have been subjected to the traditional practice of female circumcision.
- The tide is turning against female circumcision - aka genital mutilation - in Egypt by on 09/19/2007
- But he may not carry out any form of female circumcision at the request of a patient or her parents.
- Ms. Martin says the plight of rape victims is especially dire in Darfur because roughly nine out of ten Sudanese women undergo an extreme form of female circumcision.
- One prominent example you point to of the paternalistic impulse to "civilize" the Kikuyu is the effort to eradicate the practice of female circumcision, which helped inspire the first organized backlash against British rule. The Secret History
