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Control of female sexuality factors into genital mutilation.
2003 FEB 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers list the control of female sexuality as a primary reason for the practice of female circumcision.
According to recent research from Canada, "the practice better described as female genital cutting (FGC) is of long standing in some communities, and has spread to nontraditional countries by immigration. It is of varying degrees of invasiveness, often including clitoridectomy, but all raise health-related concerns, which can be of considerable physical and/or psychological severity, and compromise gynecological and obstetric care. The practice is not based on a requirement of religious observance, although parents usually seek it for their daughters in good faith."
"It is directed to the social control of women's sexuality, in association with preservation of virginity and family honor. FGC is becoming increasingly prohibited by law, in countries both of its traditional practice and of immigration. Medical practice prohibits FGC," remarked R.J. Cook and ...
- Control of female sexuality factors into genital mutilation.
- Newspaper article from: OBGYN & Reproduction Week February 10, 2003 700+ words
...Researchers list the control of female sexuality as a primary reason for the practice...colleagues published their study in International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics (Female...1A1, Canada. To subscribe to the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics...
- "Making a Scene": some thoughts on female sexuality and marriage in Eudora...
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly Fuller, Danielle March 22, 1995 700+ words
...not least in her portrayal of female sexuality in which performance - the...embodies the ambiguities of female sexuality. In several recent feminist...of Eudora Welty's work, female sexuality is presented in a rather essentialising...
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- Magazine article from: Michigan Academician Nangia, Shonu March 22, 2007 700+ words
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...sexuality within the narratives of female sexuality historically available to Cather and...is "natural" and "true" about female sexuality Reading Marian's nature within the...s behavior within taxonomies of female sexuality, taxonomies that, in turn, anchor...
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Marching, Soe Tjen February 1, 2007 700+ words
...however, is not merely a discussion of female sexuality, it also addresses issues relating...Nonetheless, it is the descriptions of female sexuality that have received the most attention...published. In each of their novels female sexuality is depicted explicitly. (2) For...
- The song of the sorority: Female sexuality as represented through dirty songs....
- Women and Language September 22, 2002 700+ words
...The song of the sorority: Female sexuality as represented through dirty...self) representations of female sexuality within the sexually explicit...prescriptions and proscriptions for female sexuality posited by the Greek system...
- "We'll learn that of the men": female sexuality in Southerne's comedies....
- Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Drougge, Helga June 22, 1993 700+ words
...and frequently approving picture of female sexuality, including libertine or "promiscuous...not lead them any nearer approval of female sexuality.(8) Their outspokenness has given...expressions of their disgust at "hellish" female sexuality. Loyalist emulation of the royal...
- Female Sexuality
- Dictionary definition from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis Kristeva, Julia January 1, 2005 700+ words
FEMALE SEXUALITY Freud's observations on female sexuality were made between 1923 and 1933, late in his career. They cannot be understood without reference to his thesis of the primacy of the phallus, according to which, for both sexes...
