Abstract
Female Genital Mutilation in the United States: Elective and Non-Elective ProceduresUsing feminist theory and my background in Women's Studies, I am outlining occurrences of female genital mutilation and cliterectomy as both elective and non-elective procedures. There has been only one tried case in the United States of a father from Ethiopia who was convicted in Georgia of performing FGM on his two year old daughter with a pair of scissors. I am taking Samantha's advice and I have begun to research instances of FGM as an elective procedure for intersexed persons to make them male or female and when the procedure is done on hermaphrodite children when they are born, with the parents and doctors deciding what sex they think the child should be. In my paper I am using my background to also outline how society handles and influences FGM.
Abstract
Female Genital Mutilation in the United States: Elective and Non-Elective ProceduresUsing feminist theory and my background in Women's Studies, I am outlining occurrences of female genital mutilation and cliterectomy as both elective and non-elective procedures. There has been only one tried case in the United States of a father from Ethiopia who was convicted in Georgia of performing FGM on his two year old daughter with a pair of scissors. I am taking Samantha's advice and I have begun to research instances of FGM as an elective procedure for intersexed persons to make them male or female and when the procedure is done on hermaphrodite children when they are born, with the parents and doctors deciding what sex they think the child should be. In my paper I am using my background to also outline how society handles and influences FGM.
Working Bibliography
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Guinn, David E. Faith on Trial: Communities of Faith, the First Amendment, and the Theory of Deep Diversity. Maryland: Lexington Books, 2002.
James, Stanlie M., and Claire C. Robertson, eds. Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood: Disputing U.S. Polemics. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
LY- Tall, Aoua Bocar. “Female Genital Mutilation and Its Migration from Africa to North America.” Out of the Ivory Tower: Feminist Research for Social Change. Eds. Andrea Martinez and Meryn Stuart. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2003. 119- 130.
Rahman, Anika, and Nahid Toubia. Female Genital Mutilation: A guide to Laws and Policies Worldwide. New York: Zed Books, 2000.
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Skaine, Rosemarie. Female Genital Mutilation: Legal, Cultural and Medical Issues. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2005.
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These are my book sources... I have many more article and periodical articles but they are in this weird format and I'm having trouble with the getting them in proper MLA. I'm sorry about that but I am pleased because I am finding far more sources on my subject than I though I would.
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