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Female Circumcision, Tradition or Mutilation

Europe, and North America (Kluge 1993). Parents may use traditional practitioners or seek medical facilities to reduce the morbidi...

A Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton

categorized into four classifications: * "Type I. Excision of the prepuce, with or without excision of part or all of the clitoris...

The Olinkan Tribe and Female Circumcision

Tashi first came into the clinic, she could barely walk due to complications from her circumcision. A pelvic examination revealed...

Jane's Fairytale Sisters in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

In six pages the ways in which the fairytale tradition is reflected in this novel is examined in terms of the female psyche and th...

Hanny Lightfoot Klein's 'Prisoners of Ritual'

many areas so that they remain chained to the patriarchal influence. "The patriarchal system, which came into being when society ...

A Historical World View of Female Genital Mutilation

an exclusively Islamic practice. FGM is a cross-cultural and cross-religious ritual and is in most cultures primarily a social pra...

Female Genital Mutilation Ritual

(Kluge 1993). Parents may use traditional practitioners or seek medical facilities to reduce the morbidity or mortality of this ge...

Overview of Infibulation

In seven pages this paper defines infibulation and considers the causes and effects of genital mutilation in females. Twelve sour...

Alice Walker's Crusade Against Female Genital Mutilation

This paper examines the crusade against female genital mutilation. The author cites Alice Walker's book, Anything We Love Can Be ...

Mutilation of the Female Body and Human Dignity

with her role in society. These designed programs served not only to control the female gender, but also to block entrance for wo...

Female Genital Mutilation

and many regions throughout Asia perhaps and clearly in many regions of Africa. From this it is clear that the practice is somethi...

Recurring Patterns in Female Circumcision

the clitoridectomy, in which "part or all of the clitoris is amputated"; the second type is sometimes referred to as "excision" in...

The Debate Over Female Circumcision

This paper presents both sides of the sensitive debate surrounding female circumcision. This five page paper has six sources list...

West African Families and Female Circumcision

regions, the "lips" of the vagina, the labia minora and labia major, are also cut. The most severe form of female circumcision is ...

Female Circumcision and Practice Elimination by Anthropologists

gender is not readily acknowledged within the stifling boundaries of a patriarchal society. As a direct result of societal dictat...

Male and Female Circumcision

Female circumcision, almost unknown in Western cultures, is mainly found...

Sramana Tradition & Hinduism

of Hinduism, and it is generally revered and considered to be the source of dharma.5 "Veda" can be translated literally as "knowl...

The Concept of the “Virtuous Person” in Socratic and Buddhist Tradition

I was speaking have a superhuman wisdom, which I may fail to describe, because I have it not myself; and he who says that I have, ...

Scripture and Tradition in Roman Catholic Teaching

God. Achieving that goal also requires the instruction found in revelations made from God to various Catholic leaders over the ce...

Female Genital Mutilation and APN Practice

piercing and massaging of any part of external genitalia (Onuh, et al, 2006, p. 409). The WHO has supported efforts to stop all f...

Female Genital Mutilation, Women, and Global Justice

impossible for her to ever derive any enjoyment from the sexual act. This practice is suppose to ensure that women remain chaste a...

Morally Justifying Mutilation of Female Genitals

sexuality of the individual. However, FGM is far more drastic and damaging than male circumcision. A more appropriate analogy woul...

Love in a Small Town by Wang Anyi

sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...

Huckleberry Finn and Don Quixote

In four pages this research paper examines each work as it represents the picaresque tradition classification....

Chinese American Woman and the Conflict of Dual Roles

on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...

Female Police Officers

The literature makes it very clear that female police officers face more challenges and have fewer opportunities than male office...

Female Characters, Gender Roles, and Humor in the Sex and the City TV Series

This HBO cable series is critiqued in 5 pages with gender roles, humor, and female characterizations analyzed....

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Characters of Lily Briscoe and Mrs. Ramsay

In five pages these two female characters are compared. There are no other sources listed....

Gender and 'Pickup' Lines

Look at the odds she said. It is during the day or early evening; there is good lighting; people are sober, and there is a slim p...

Mosaic Tradition and Divine Command and the Mosaic Tradition: Maimonides, Al-Ghazali and Augustine

the divine commands and the application of Mosaic tradition require a comparative view of these authors, their underlying purpose,...