clitoridectomies

According to Professor John Studd of Imperial College London, 19th-century middle-class women believed to be suffering from anything from PMT to nymphomania were routinely subject to clitoridectomies.

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Additionally, when the British outlawed this procedure in the 1950s in Kenya, tribes continually performed clitoridectomies to strengthen their resistance to British colonial rule and increased support for the Mau Mauguerrilla movement.

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It would end the appalling mistreatment of women in this region no more honor murders or clitoridectomies.

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Beyond that, yes, if they want to join an organization opposing clitoridectomies in West Africa or misogyny in Afghanistan, or even form a militia of their own to go fight in those places, by all means, they should do so.

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As you may have heard, it is common in Africa to give girls as young as eight and as old as eighteen clitoridectomies.

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As you may have heard, it is common in Africa to give girls as young as eight and as old as eighteen clitoridectomies.

Wife in the Fast Lane Karen Quinn 2007

In the 19th and 20th century, punishment included castration, clitoridectomies, shock treatment, and lobotomies.

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Toufic may have been Christian, but he was nonetheless Arabic and thus subject to the sexual insecurities that among men of the Middle East achieved titanic, even earth-changing proportions; insecurities that had spawned veils, shaven heads, clitoridectomies, house arrest, segregation, macho posturing, and three major religions.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

Toufic may have been Christian, but he was nonetheless Arabic and thus subject to the sexual insecurities that among men of the Middle East achieved titanic, even earth-changing proportions; insecurities that had spawned veils, shaven heads, clitoridectomies, house arrest, segregation, macho posturing, and three major religions.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

They claim that the procedure can cause health risks and diminished sexual function and compare it to the clitoridectomies performed on girls in parts of Africa.

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