her-Dr John Bulwer”. Female Genital Mutilation (F.G.M) is the cutting of the genitalia in females for non-medical purposes, mainly to lessen the urge of having sexual desires. It is believed that only the men should feel pleasure during sexual acts, and females are simply used just for carrying a child in their womb. Over 2 million girls undergo this Islamic tradition a year, causing severe traumatic and physical suffering that may last a lifetime(WHO, 2014). Female genital mutilation needs to be banned
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), also known as radical female circumcision, has had an increase of attention and disapproval from the west in the last 20 years. In a world health organization report of 1996 it was found that FGM is practiced in 28 countries, some being Asian and north and central African countries and even by immigrants in western countries as well. This practice is performed on more than 2 million women (600,000 being in Africa). It ranges from partial clitoridectomy to fully excising
Today in the universe in which we live in, “three million girls and women are subjected to female genital mutilation worldwide each year. That’s 8000 girls per day.” (END FGM) This ancient ritual is extensively practiced throughout many parts of Africa and the Middle East. (Female Genital Cutting) Female genital mutilation, also known as, FGM, is a type of surgical procedure that involves either partial or complete removal of external genitalia of women of all women of all ages, even as young as
rich and unique culture that makes them stand out, but one that has gain lots of attention is female circumcision. In her story “Female circumcision” author Frances Althaus defines female circumcision as the “Partial or total cutting away of the external female genitalia” (242). Female genital mutilation is still going on to this day because of the lack of education in Africa. Female genital mutilation can and will cause health problems and will also decrease the chances for sexual pleasure. Because
at all on their consumers. The relevance of this theory to this study therefore, is that firstly, the social media through continuous use of interaction, connectivity, chatting, commenting and posting of media messages on the issue of female Genital Mutilation, the society world the need
You’ve heard of male circumcision, but what about female circumcision? Female circumcision is the removal of the external female genitalia. Some cultures around the world practice it, especially in parts of Africa. Kenya has recently banned the practice but, parents are risking the penalties to have their daughters circumcised. If they are not circumcised, they are considered to be a child and are ignored by their community. Circumcised females in these communities are considered ready for marriage
“Cultural relativism asserts that since each culture has its own inherent integrity with unique values and practices, value judgements should be withheld or suspended until cultural context is taken into account,” (Fluehr-Lobban). In Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban’s article Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights, she examines the way anthropologists have gone about observing and recording other cultures in their practices for years, and how with new facts and oppositions arising each day as light
Duncan (2001) Explains that female circumcision is a wide spread cultural practice affecting millions of young women and causing many health complications A number of effects arise from female circumcision and these include: Infections, Pain, bleeding and Trauma, problems with gynecological health, psychological, sexually transmitted infections and emotional stress, and problems during pregnancy and labour. 1.2 Objective of the study To identify factors accounting for female circumcision in Kenya
This present study sheds light on cohesion in media discourse through analyzing lexical and grammatical cohesion. On one hand, lexical cohesion signals semantic relations between lexical elements in the text. It includes two major categories, namely collocation and reiteration. Collocation refers to a pair of lexical items that tend to appear together. Reiteration involves repetition, synonym, hyponymy, and general word. On the other hand, grammatical cohesion refers to grammatical elements that
opportunities for them. This movement claims some kind of critically evaluate feminist authority next to the present social structure or system of science. Nowadays, it is seen that Ninety per cent girls from non-western culture suffer from the problem of female genital circumcision (FGC). In this present system of feminism, FGC plays an