The World Health Organization (WHO) condemns all medically unnecessary female genital
cutting (FGC) that is primarily associated with people of color and the Global South, claiming …

In recent years, the dominant Western discourse on “female genital mutilation”(FGM) has
increasingly been challenged by scholars. Numerous researchers contest both the …

Since its inception, the global female genital cutting (FGC) movement has been led by
Westerners and framed along the lines of eradication. Unfortunately, the success of harm …

The international campaign to eliminate female genital cutting (FGC) has, since the early
1990s, actively attempted to divorce itself from a health framework, adopting instead a …

All forms of genital cutting–female genital cutting (FGC), intersex genital cutting, male genital
cutting (MGC), and even cosmetic forms of FGC–are performed in a belief that they will …

Women's natural genitalia are troublesome—to society and to women themselves. The
trouble they invoke can relate to social order and patriarchal dominance; to ideas and …

There are now legally prohibited forms of medically unnecessary female genital cutting—
including the so-called ritual nick—that are less severe than permitted forms of medically …

Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood is a much-needed response to the
ethnocentric and arrogant Western perceptions surrounding female genital cutting (FGC) …

Recent events, including the arrest of physicians in Michigan, have renewed bioethical
debates surrounding the practice of female genital cutting (FGC). The secular discourse …

It is time for anthropologists to cease the relativist versus universalist polemics which has too
often characterized their writing about female genital cutting (FGC). Moving on from the tired …