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Re: female circumcision From: Ari Gold (arig@getnet.com) Tue Feb 17 22:29:16 1998 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: Crohn's involving vagina" Previous message: Dr. P. Peterman: "Re: female circumcision" In reply to: Dr. P. Peterman: "Re: female circumcision" Next in thread: Malcolm Griffiths: "Re: female circumcision" I delivered a woman last year who had had a clitorectomy as well as labiaectomy (proper term?) in her native Nigeria. She told me she tried to run away but was couaght and held down by men and women. Ingrid Gold, CNM arig@getnet.com t 11:19 PM 2/17/98 -0600, you wrote: >At Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Robert J. Woolley wrote: >> >>Is it your position that these procedures are never performed or encouraged by >>women, but always by men? >> > >I don't presume "never" or "always." Men and women have very different >roles and opportunities, as well as autonomy, in the cultures that >practice genital mutilation. I have not availed myself of any >literature on the subject; my exposure is limitted to news reports only. >I have not heard of these practices being performed by women on >themselves or on other women (this is an issue of control). Men >certainly don't have a monopoly on being misguided, and so, there are >likely some women who encourage this practice among themselves. Self >mutilation, however, is a different issue than forcibly mutilating >another person. > >P.Peterman > Next message: Bernard Cristalli: "Re: Crohn's involving vagina" Previous message: Dr. P. Peterman: "Re: female circumcision" In reply to: Dr. P. Peterman: "Re: female circumcision" Next in thread: Malcolm Griffiths: "Re: female circumcision"

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