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Female Genital Mutilation in the United States: Elective and Non-Elective Procedures

Using 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.

posted by Ashley @ 6:16 AM