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Culture, Health & Sexuality
An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care
Volume 7, 2005 - Issue 5: Themed Symposium: Female Genital Cutting
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Socio‐cultural dynamics of female genital cutting: Research findings, gaps, and directions

Pages 429-441 | Published online: 19 Aug 2006

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Dennis J. Matanda, Caroline W. Kabiru, Chantalle Okondo & Bettina Shell-Duncan. (2022) Persistence of female genital mutilation/cutting in two Kenyan communities: What can we learn from change that falls short of abandonment?. Global Public Health 17:12, pages 3493-3505.
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Dennis J. Matanda, Caroline W. Kabiru, Chantalle Okondo & Bettina Shell-Duncan. (2022) Plurality of beliefs about female genital mutilation amidst decades of intervention programming in Narok and Kisii Counties, Kenya. Culture, Health & Sexuality 24:6, pages 750-766.
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Youngeun Nam. (2021) Learning through social interaction: Kenyan women against female genital cutting in Kenya. Culture, Health & Sexuality 23:6, pages 840-853.
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Michela Villani. (2020) Reconstructing Sexuality after Excision: The Medical Tools. Medical Anthropology 39:3, pages 269-281.
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Ernst Graamans, Peter Ofware, Peter Nguura, Eefje Smet & Wouter ten Have. (2019) Understanding different positions on female genital cutting among Maasai and Samburu communities in Kenya: a cultural psychological perspective. Culture, Health & Sexuality 21:1, pages 79-94.
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Brian D. Earp, Lauren M. Sardi & William A. Jellison. (2018) False beliefs predict increased circumcision satisfaction in a sample of US American men. Culture, Health & Sexuality 20:8, pages 945-959.
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Young Eun Nam. (2018) The power structure in the perpetuation of female genital cutting in Kenya. Asian Journal of Women's Studies 24:1, pages 128-139.
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Hannelore Van Bavel, Gily Coene & Els Leye. (2017) Changing practices and shifting meanings of female genital cutting among the Maasai of Arusha and Manyara regions of Tanzania. Culture, Health & Sexuality 19:12, pages 1344-1359.
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Sibonginkosi Mpofu, Clifford Odimegwu, Nicole De Wet, Sunday Adedini & Joshua Akinyemi. (2017) The relation of female circumcision to sexual behavior in Kenya and Nigeria. Women & Health 57:7, pages 757-774.
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Julia D. Battle, Monique M. Hennink & Kathryn M. Yount. (2017) Influence of Female Genital Cutting on Sexual Experience in Southern Ethiopia. International Journal of Sexual Health 29:2, pages 173-186.
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P. S. Lilleston, L. Goldmann, R. K. Verma & J. McCleary-Sills. (2017) Understanding social norms and violence in childhood: theoretical underpinnings and strategies for intervention. Psychology, Health & Medicine 22:sup1, pages 122-134.
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Germano Vera Cruz & Etienne Mullet. (2014) The Practice of Puxa-Puxa among Mozambican Women: A Systematic Inventory of Motives. The Journal of Sex Research 51:8, pages 852-862.
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Marguerite L. Sagna. (2014) Gender differences in support for the discontinuation of female genital cutting in Sierra Leone. Culture, Health & Sexuality 16:6, pages 603-619.
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Erick Vloeberghs, Anke van der Kwaak, Jeroen Knipscheer & Maria van den Muijsenbergh. (2012) Coping and chronic psychosocial consequences of female genital mutilation in the Netherlands. Ethnicity & Health 17:6, pages 677-695.
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Jo Boyden. (2012) Why are current efforts to eliminate female circumcision in Ethiopia misplaced?. Culture, Health & Sexuality 14:10, pages 1111-1123.
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Guillermo Martínez Pérez & Harriet Namulondo. (2011) Elongation of labia minora in Uganda: including Baganda men in a risk reduction education programme. Culture, Health & Sexuality 13:1, pages 45-57.
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Camilla Palm, Eva Elmerstig, Charlotta Holmström & Birgitta Essén. (2023) The relationship between dominant Western discourse and personal narratives of female genital cutting: exploring storytelling among Swedish-Somali girls and women. Frontiers in Sociology 8.
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Ellen Gruenbaum, Brian D. Earp & Richard A. Shweder. (2022) Reconsidering the role of patriarchy in upholding female genital modifications: analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial societies. International Journal of Impotence Research 35:3, pages 202-211.
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Michela Fusaschi. (2022) Gendered genital modifications in critical anthropology: from discourses on FGM/C to new technologies in the sex/gender system. International Journal of Impotence Research 35:1, pages 6-15.
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Patrizia Farina, Livia Ortensi, Thomas Pettinato & Enrico Ripamonti. (2022) The relationship between women’s individual empowerment and the support to female genital cutting continuation: a study on 7 African countries. Genus 78:1.
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Benedict Ekow Ocran & Godwin Agot Atiigah. (2022) An Insider–Outsider Approach to Understanding the Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation in Pusiga in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Social Sciences 11:11, pages 526.
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Marie-Hélène Doucet, Alexandre Delamou, Hawa Manet & Danielle Groleau. (2022) Beyond the Sociocultural Rhetoric: Female Genital Mutilation, Cultural Values and the Symbolic Capital (Honor) of Women and Their Family in Conakry, Guinea—A Focused Ethnography Among “Positive Deviants”. Sexuality & Culture 26:5, pages 1858-1884.
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Brian D. Earp. (2022) Genital Cutting as Gender Oppression: Time to Revisit the WHO Paradigm. Frontiers in Human Dynamics 4.
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Brian D. Earp & Sara Johnsdotter. (2020) Current critiques of the WHO policy on female genital mutilation. International Journal of Impotence Research 33:2, pages 196-209.
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Ronan Van Rossem & Dominique Meekers. (2020) The decline of FGM in Egypt since 1987: a cohort analysis of the Egypt Demographic and Health Surveys. BMC Women's Health 20:1.
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Vivian N. Mbanya, Laura Terragni, Abdi A. Gele, Esperanza Diaz & Bernadette N. Kumar. (2020) Barriers to access to the Norwegian healthcare system among sub-Saharan African immigrant women exposed to female genital cutting. PLOS ONE 15:3, pages e0229770.
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Kathryn M. Yount, Yuk Fai Cheong, Rose Grace Grose & Sarah R. Hayford. (2020) Community gender systems and a daughter’s risk of female genital mutilation/cutting: Multilevel findings from Egypt. PLOS ONE 15:3, pages e0229917.
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Araz S. Boghossian, John Freebody, Rebecca Moses & Gregory Jenkins. (2019) Risk assessment for antenatal depression among women who have undergone female genital mutilation or cutting: Are we missing the mark?. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 60:1, pages 76-81.
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Alina Greis, Till Bärnighausen, Mamadou Bountogo, Lucienne Ouermi, Ali Sié & Guy Harling. (2020) Attitudes towards female genital cutting among adolescents in rural Burkina Faso: a multilevel analysis. Tropical Medicine & International Health 25:1, pages 119-131.
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Roger Antabe, Yujiro Sano, Florence W. Anfaara, Moses Kansanga, Xiangnan Chai & Isaac Luginaah. (2019) Antenatal Care Utilization and Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya. Sexuality & Culture 23:3, pages 705-717.
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Christopher K. Payne, Jasmine Abdulcadir, Charlemagne Ouedraogo, Sebastien Madzou, Fasnéwindé Aristide Kabore & Elise JB De. (2019) International continence society white paper regarding female genital mutilation/cutting. Neurourology and Urodynamics 38:2, pages 857-867.
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Janet A. Howard & Mhairi A. Gibson. (2019) Is there a link between paternity concern and female genital cutting in West Africa?. Evolution and Human Behavior 40:1, pages 1-11.
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Bettina Shell-Duncan, Amadou Moreau, Katherine Wander & Sarah Smith. (2018) The role of older women in contesting norms associated with female genital mutilation/cutting in Senegambia: A factorial focus group analysis. PLOS ONE 13:7, pages e0199217.
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