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Honor Diaries, a group of nine female activists come together to discuss issues faced by women and girls, specifically with a focus on Muslim-majority societies. These nine women touch on an array of issues but emphasize major topics such as female genital mutilation, forced marriages, and honor violence. All the topics revolve around one major concept which is honor. The women argue that honor is contained in women and it is to be guarded by men (Basch-Harod, Kweskin, Traiman, & Smith, 2013).…

Expectations and standards for women in society are unrealistic and outrageous. These thoughts of what a woman should be like and how they should behave have been around for centuries. Woman are often times looked down upon when they don’t look like how society tells them to and this can cause a number of things to go wrong in their self image and life. Unfortunately these high expectations have had an extremely negative impact on females. In Margie Piercy’s poem “Barbie Doll” she discusses the…

Introduction Background There are several types of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) performed in Africa that coincide with cultural beliefs. The World Health Organization (WHO) (2016, 1) defines FGM as procedures that purposefully modify or cause physical harm to the female genital organs for non-medical purposes. Furthermore, FGM has no benefits for young girls or women. Additionally, these procedures can cause death, severe infections, bleeding, and future problems with urination. The WHO…

Approach of Female Genital Cutting Introduction to the Mutilation: As it stands in a massive list of cultural issues, female genital cutting (FGC), also misleadingly known as female circumcision, is a barbaric practice which occurs even to this day in different parts of the world. The term as per the description of the World Health Organization (WHO), refers to: “all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for…

Female Genital Mutilation or also known Female Circumcision began in order to control a women’s sexuality. In certain societies, family marry their daughters off at a young age in order to escape poverty. Many young girls are pulled out of school to be a full-time wife and mother to children at a very young age. The practice was performed around the world usually by older men and women on young girls and women under the age of 15 or before they get their first period. The main purpose of this…

Committee on Bioethics (1998). Female genital mutilation. American Academy of Pediatrics, 102(1), 153-156. In the article, the authors talk about the practice of Female Genital Mutilation, its origins, which Countries, societies, groups and individuals who perform FGM. The authors write about the three different types of genital cutting and briefly describe the severe conditions of each. In this article there is also an extensive discussion of health risks associated with each type of female…

Female Genital Mutilation today ranks as a rather controversial topic in many countries around the world. There are several factors when it comes to actually dealing with the process. Such as what exactly FGM is. Along with understanding the procedure the reasons for it being done. Including where it is conducted throughout the world. Yet to understand the procedure the future of it must be understood as well. Female Genital Mutilation is a procedure which involves nicking, cutting, and/or…

Gender reassignment, sex change, sex reassignment surgery, or sex realignment surgery, regardless of what name is used, this process is lengthy and has many variables. For the sake of this paper, and most commonly, I will refer to the above mentioned as Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS). In essence, this is a procedure that permanently alters and reassigns ones born gender from male-to-female, or female-to-male. This might sound simple, however there are many things to consider when one is…

to the Criminal Code of Illinois, effective January 1, 1998.71 The law states that “whoever knowingly circumcises, excises, or infibulates, in whole or in part, the labia majora, labia minora, or clitoris of another commits the offense of female genital mutilation.” The offense is a class X felony, punishable by not less than six years or more than 30 years imprisonment. The statute prohibits the performance of FGM/C on both minors and adults. Consent to the procedure by a minor’s parent or…

Excision (partial or total removal of the clitoris and labia minora); type three is Infibulation (narrowing of the vaginal opening, by creating a covering or seal); type four is any other type of procedure that harms the female genital organs for non-medical reasons (“Female Genital Mutilation”)(c). Female circumcision is performed for many reasons primarily culturally…