Female genital cutting: A sociological analysis

Criticizing Female Genital Mutilation Practice from Feminist Standpoint Theory: A View from Communication Science Perspective

“…2 A systematic review identifying factors perpetuating and hindering Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting (FGM/C) in some Western countries has been reported at length (Berg, Denison & Fretheim, 2010;Berg & Denison, 2013). Social scientists from inter-and trans-disciplinary studies, such as cultural and medical anthropology (Salmon,1973;Lyons, 1980;Gruenbaum, 2001Gruenbaum, , 2005aGruenbaum, , 2005bGruenbaum, , 2006Rezaeeahan, 2012;Hidayana et al, 2018;Shell-Duncan et al, 2018), sociology (Androus, 2006;Ida & Saud, 2020), public health (Rouzi, 2013;Ahmady, 2016;Alamri, 2016;Llamas, 2017;Kandala & Komba, 2018;Cappa et al, 2019), genderrelated studies (Stoetzler and Yuval-Davis, 2002;Davis, 2004;Njambi, 2004;Moruzzi, 2005;Mulia, 2014) and philosophy (Galeotti, 2007;Mende, 2011Mende, , 2018 highlight the constant tension between women's obligation to obey cultural norms and their relative autonomy on bodies. The medical-material universal invocation intertwined with the cultural-symbolic values embedded within FGM practices in many countries has permeated these scholars' inconclusive analyses and opened some unexplored paths towards contextualizing the finding and theorizing the more significant impact.…”