Search The Directory The Web for Home > Health > Child Health > Circumcision > Female_Circumcision New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   A Centuries-Old Practice, A Deadly Tradition - FGM and Religion: A False Connection -- FGM, or female circumcision as it is also but incorrectly known, is practiced by Muslims, Christians, animists, and nonbelievers in a range of communities, often under the mistaken belief that it is a religious dictate. - U.S. Fund for UNICEF 1998   Articles about Female Circumcision - Historical articles in U.S. medicine.   Celebrate Clitoris - A not-for-profit organization promoting non-mutilating female initiation into adulthood. Raising funds and awareness through comedy performance "In Search of My Clitoris."   Common Denominators Between Male and Female Circumcision - Lists similarities between male and female circumcision.   Comparisons Between Male Circumcision and Female "Circumcision" - Rising Daughters Aware   Epidemiology Of Female Sexual Castration In Cairo, Egypt - In 1985, a group of 350 urban Egyptian women were selected to self-report on their recall of their female sexual castration (FSC) which they experienced as children.   Erroneous Belief Systems Underlying Female Genital Mutilation - by Hanny Lightfoot­Klein - I first became aware of the existence of what at that time was still euphemistically called "female circumcision" in 1979.   Evils of Female Circumcision - A Somali woman, Waris Derie, now a model in New York, has highlighted the evil practice of female circumcision.   Female Circumcision And Child Mortality - by Omar A. Mohamud - from Genus,1991 - There are many variables contributing to infant mortality: low female education attainment, introduction of breast-milk substitutes, short interbirth spacing, reduction in the duration of breast-feeding. In Somalia, an additional factor may affect both early infant and late child mortality. This factor is circumcision.   Female Circumcision Comes to America - by Linda Burstyn - Atlantic Monthly, Oct 1995 - Performed by new immigrants, veiled in deference to a cultural tradition of the developing world, female circumcision is becoming an American problem.   Female Circumcision Introduction - Female circumcision (henceforth FC) has a variety of manifestations. The ramifications, sexual and healthful, of the various forms are extreme. For these reasons, Western society quickly condemns such rituals. In Western eyes the issue is clear: female circumcision is wrong and barbaric and it must be eradicated at all costs. Unfortunately the issue is not so simple.   Female Circumcision Issues Page - The World Health Organization had a conference in February 1979 in Khartoum, Sudan, and unanimously condemned the mutilations as disastrous to womens health and as indefensible on medical as well as humane grounds. In the United States, Rep. Pat Schroeder has written a bill to prohibit female genital mutilation (FGM), H.R. 3247.   Female Circumcision: Clitorectomy and Infibulations - Offers a selection of articles.   Female Circumcision: Indications and a New Technique - This 1959 medical journal article reveals how American medicine condoned female circumcision with arguments similar to those still used today to justify male circumcision. We offer this article for historical reference only, as well as to emphasize these similarities and expose medical arrogance.   Female Circumcision: Wounds that never heal. - Essence, Mar 1996 - By Marianna L. Barrie - A young Fula woman born in Sierra Leone, W Africa, recounts the horror of being circumcised at the age of 10, and the permanent physical and psychological trauma that resulted.   Female Genital Mutilation (Female Circumcision) - by ReligiousTolerance.org   Female Genital Mutilation - A Human Rights Information Pack (1998) - from Amnesty International   Female Genital Mutilation - Female Circumcision - Northern Arizona University - This section contains studies of female genital mutilation.   Female Genital Mutilation: Strategies For Eradication - by Fran P. Hosken - Female genital mutilation - the descriptive term for the different types of operations are "excision" and "infibulation" - continues to be practiced in large regions of Africa, from the Red Sea Coast to the shores of the Atlantic. In Indonesia and Malaysia, less drastic forms of "female circumcision" are practiced by some of the Moslem populations of this region and sporadic occurrences have been registered among other mainly Moslem groups.   Female circumcision - World Health - Sep 1995 - The practice of female circumcision should be abolished because of its harmful effects on those subjected to it. The different sectors of society around the world should unite and carefully study the problem to formulate a solution and help eradicate the harmful traditional practice.     [ 1 2 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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