Author: Bríd Hehir
The narcissism of female genital enhancement
The lecture, Narcissism and identity-determinism helped explain why we’ve become so absorbed with changing our bodies and why young, western women are increasingly opting for genital enhancements.
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FGM Protection Orders: Who benefits?
‘Female genital mutilation’ (FGM), no matter the type or severity,
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Banning circumcision: an attack on religious freedom
The Progress Party, Norway’s third-largest political party,
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The NSPCC inundates us with hype about FGM
Despite little evidence to back it up, the NSPCC
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London’s Mayor pays half a million to do women with FGM a dis-service
London’s new Mayor, Sadiq Khan and his Assembly,
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Acton’s FGM Clinic closure is good news
A petition aimed at stopping the imminent closure of Acton’s FGM Community Clinic is circulating.
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FGM legislation is too weak and too strong?
An interesting and timely paper by Dr Arianne Shahvisi
was published recently.
‘Fuambai’s strength’. A moral portrait
Anthropologist Carlos Londoño Sulkin recently published an unusual and very interesting bioethnographic case study.
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