Essays on Female Genital Mutilation

Talking about culture can take a long time, even a lifetime. We constantly express and expose different patterns, signs, symbols, attitudes and beliefs that correspond to a series of customs and values associated with the way of perceiving the world, from the perspective of an...

Whether the state should intervene in consensual matters, depends primarily on present morals and beliefs influenced by factual and accurate information on those matters. A term that will be referred to in this essay is female circumcision, more commonly referred to in Western Countries as...

In ‘Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights’, Charlotte Bunch argues that achieving women’s human rights is a necessity in order to combat and aid violations against females globally. However, this argument is clearly limited in practice when analysing the violation...

The gutwrenching phrase, “female genital mutilation,” is mostly unheard of in the United States. However, many countries and cultures worldwide are very familiar with the term. Female genital mutilation refers to the partial or total removal of the external genitalia of young women and girls....

“Female Genital Mutilation” (FGM), a term coined in 1976 by American feminist and social activist, Fran Hosken, is defined by the World Health Organization as “all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital...