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Volume 22, 2014 - Issue 43: Population, environment and sustainable development
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Female genital cutting in Hargeisa, Somaliland: is there a move towards less severe forms?

Ingvild Bergom LundeResearcher, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, [email protected]
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Mette SagbakkenAssociate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo and Akershus University College, OsloNorway
Pages 169-177 | Published online: 04 Jun 2014

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Richard Antony Powell & Mohamed Yussuf. (2022) Medical narrative and religious norm driving cut type and medicalization changes in female genital mutilation/cutting in Somaliland. Health Care for Women International 43:7-8, pages 722-745.
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Anna Wahlberg, Birgitta Essén & Sara Johnsdotter. (2019) From sameness to difference: Swedish Somalis’ post-migration perceptions of the circumcision of girls and boys. Culture, Health & Sexuality 21:6, pages 619-635.
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Ragnhild Elise B. Johansen. (2017) Undoing female genital cutting: perceptions and experiences of infibulation, defibulation and virginity among Somali and Sudanese migrants in Norway. Culture, Health & Sexuality 19:4, pages 528-542.
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R. Elise B. Johansen. (2023) Kroppslige praksiser, erfaring og endring –tvetydige diskurser om kvinnelig omskjæring blant norsk-somaliere. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift 34:1, pages 45-63.
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Getaneh Mehari. 2023. Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting. Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting 57 72 .
R. Elise B. Johansen. (2022) Discourses of change: The shift from infibulation to sunna circumcision among Somali and Sudanese migrants in Norway. PLOS ONE 17:6, pages e0268322.
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Mohamed Yussuf, Dennis J. Matanda & Richard A. Powell. (2020) Exploring the capacity of the Somaliland healthcare system to manage female genital mutilation / cutting-related complications and prevent the medicalization of the practice: a cross-sectional study. BMC Health Services Research 20:1.
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Claudia Cappa, Claire Thomson & Colleen Murray. (2020) Understanding the association between parental attitudes and the practice of female genital mutilation among daughters. PLOS ONE 15:5, pages e0233344.
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Angi Alradie-Mohamed, Russell Kabir & S.M. Yasir Arafat. (2020) Decision-Making Process in Female Genital Mutilation: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17:10, pages 3362.
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Els Leye, Nina Van Eekert, Simukai Shamu, Tammary Esho & Hazel Barrett. (2019) Debating medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): learning from (policy) experiences across countries. Reproductive Health 16:1.
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Anna Wahlberg, Sara Johnsdotter, Katarina Ekholm Selling, Carina Källestål & Birgitta Essén. (2017) Factors associated with the support of pricking (female genital cutting type IV) among Somali immigrants – a cross-sectional study in Sweden. Reproductive Health 14:1.
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R. Elise B. Johansen. (2017) Virility, pleasure and female genital mutilation/cutting. A qualitative study of perceptions and experiences of medicalized defibulation among Somali and Sudanese migrants in Norway. Reproductive Health 14:1.
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Mai M. Ziyada, Marthe Norberg-Schulz & R. Elise B. Johansen. (2016) Estimating the magnitude of female genital mutilation/cutting in Norway: an extrapolation model. BMC Public Health 16:1.
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