• DOI:10.1016/S0020-7292(03)00229-7
Corpus ID: 39607405

Female genital mutilation: have we made progress?

@article{Toubia2003FemaleGM,
  title={Female genital mutilation: have we made progress?},
  author={N. Toubia and E. Sharief},
  journal={International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics},
  year={2003},
  volume={82}
}

N. Toubia, E. Sharief

Published 2003

Medicine

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics

Interest curtailing the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) has increased in the past 20 years. Although the political and legal environment towards the practice is more hostile, this awareness has yet to translate itself to measurable changes in prevalence. At the local level activities are shifting from a clinical, health risk, model to an understanding of the phenomenon in its social context. Under patriarchal structures of social control of sexuality and fertility, women and girls… CONTINUE READING

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