Just for the records: ich glaube, den Artikel hatten wir hier im Forum noch nicht verlinkt.
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If I didn’t do that, I wouldn’t be a woman now.
Khazan: Was the girl like, “No, don’t do this to me!” or was she like, “This is happening.”?
Shell-Duncan: No, no, she was proud. She sat there stoic and looked up at a focal point. She didn’t flinch, and that’s apparently a really important part of showing your maturity: Can you withstand the pain? It shows that you have the maturity to face the hardship that is coming as a woman.
The sort of feminist argument about this is that it’s about the control of women but also of their sexuality and sexual pleasure. But when you talk to people on the ground, you also hear people talking about the idea that it’s women’s business. As in, it’s for women to decide this. If we look at the data across Africa, the support for the practice is stronger among women than among men.
Female circumcision is part of demarcating insider and outsider status. Are you part of this group of elder women who have power in their society
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