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Female Genital Mutilation
Title: Female Genital Mutilation
Category: Literature / English
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Female Genital Mutilation
Introduction
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a ritual of initiation that is performed on young girls to take them from childhood into womanhood. It is practiced predominantly in Islamic cultures of Africa and the Middle East. The practice is widespread throughout twenty-eight African countries and affects 130 million women (Mackie.1998: 1). Religion has been a means to justify female circumcision. The majority of circumcised women in the world are Muslim who practices FGM under a religious pretext. …showed first 75 words of 3087 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3087 total…Africa and Ritual Female Genital Mutilation in Africa
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