Jomo Kenyatta, Marie Bonaparte and Bronislaw Malinowski on Clitoridectomy and Female Sexuality

Frederiksen, Bodil Folke

doi:10.1093/hwj/dbn013

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“…8 In this context, efforts to end FGM were viewed as socially divisive, linked to a faith-based agenda, and denigrating local culture, religion and identity. This has echoes with previous attempts at ending FGM in Kenya, led by Protestant missionaries and opposed on the basis of a resurgent ethnic identity.…”

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Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya: are young men allies in social change programmes?

Brown

Mwangi-Powell

Jerotich³

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Reproductive Health Matters

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The Girl Summit held in 2014 aimed to mobilise greater effort to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) within a generation, building on a global movement which viewed the practice as a severe form of violence against women and girls and a violation of their rights. The UN, among others, endorse "comprehensive" strategies to end FGM, including legalistic measures, social protection and social communications. FGM is a sensitive issue and difficult to research, and rapid ethnographic methods can use existing relations of trust within social networks to explore attitudes towards predominant social norms which posit FGM as a social necessity. This study used Participatory Ethnographic Evaluation Research (PEER) to understand young men's (18-25 years) perceptions of FGM, demand for FGM among future spouses, and perceptions of efforts to end FGM in a small town in West Pokot, Kenya, where FGM is reported to be high (between 85% to 96%). Twelve PEER researchers were recruited, who conducted two interviews with their friends, generating a total of 72 narrative interviews. The majority of young men who viewed themselves as having a "modern" outlook and with aspirations to marry "educated" women were more likely not to support FGM. Our findings show that young men viewed themselves as valuable allies in ending FGM, but that voicing their opposition to the practice was often difficult. More efforts are needed by multi-stakeholders -campaigners, government and local leaders -to create an enabling environment to voice that opposition.

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“…In the 1930s to 1950s, practising FGM became a symbol of resistance to colonial control and part of a re-assertion of African nationalist identity. 8,9 This politicisation has arguably continued to the present day. Government-appointed local chiefs were suspected of instigating mass demonstrations against the FGM Law, enacted in 2011.…”

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Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya: are young men allies in social change programmes?

Brown

Mwangi-Powell

Jerotich³

et al. 2016

Reproductive Health Matters

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“…The efforts towards the abandonment of FC date back to the early 20th century when European missionaries and colonial powers in Africa attempted to stop the practice by introducing laws and church rules, the result of which was anger against the colonial powers [11]. According to Rahman and Toubia, the governments of Egypt and Sudan passed laws on FC in the 1940s and 1950s although these laws did not work due to the absence of prior public awareness [12].…”

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Attitudes toward Female Circumcision among Men and Women in Two Districts in Somalia: Is It Time to Rethink Our Eradication Strategy in Somalia?

Gele

Bø

Sundby

2013

Obstetrics and Gynecology International

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Somalia has the highest global prevalence (98%) of female circumcision (FC), and, despite a long history of abandonment efforts, it is not clear as to whether or not these programmes have changed people's positive attitudes toward the practice. Against this background, this paper explores the attitudes of Somalis living in Hargeisa and Galkayo districts to the practice of FC. Methods. A purposive sampling of 24 Somalis, including activists and practitioners, men and women, was conducted in Somalia. Unstructured interviews were employed to explore the participants' knowledge of FC, their attitudes toward the continuation/discontinuation of the practice, and the type they want to continue or not to continue. Result. The findings of this qualitative study indicate that there is a strong resistance towards the abandonment of the practice in Somalia. The support for the continuation of Sunna circumcision is widespread, while there is a quite large rejection of Pharaonic circumcision. Conclusion. Therefore, since the “zero tolerance policy” has failed to change people's support for the continuation of the practice in Somalia, programmes that promote the pinch of the clitoral skin and verbal alteration of status, with the goal of leading to total abandonment of FC, should be considered for the Somali context.

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“…Quoi qu'il en soit, par un jeu d'équivalence et la possibilité de recruter à la LSE des étudiants ayant une « prior knowledge of natives situations », suivant la clause introduite par Malinowski dans le règlement des études (Mills 2008 : 38), celui-ci inscrivit Johnstone Kamau à son séminaire, dans un cursus de master étalé sur trois ans et obtint pour son étudiant une bourse de l'IIALC (ironie de l'histoire, le jury comme l'Institut était présidé par Lord Lugard en personne, qui rappelons-le, était le théoricien de l'indirect rule). C'est par l'entremise de Malinowski que Johnstone fit également un séjour d'une dizaine de jours à Paris en avril 1935, à l'invitation de la princesse Marie Bonaparte (Frederiksen 2008). Malinowski intéressé, on le sait, par la question de l'universalité du complexe d'OEdipe, entretenait de nombreux échanges avec Marie Bonaparte, élève de Freud, connue pour ses analyses sur la libido féminine et l'origine de la frigidité.…”

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The Singular Destiny of Facing Mount Kenya. The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu (1938) by Jomo Kenyatta. A Contribution to the Anthropology of Knowledge

Peatrik¹

2014

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Jomo Kenyatta, Marie Bonaparte and Bronislaw Malinowski on Clitoridectomy and Female Sexuality

Cited by 47 publications

References 20 publications

Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya: are young men allies in social change programmes?

Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya: are young men allies in social change programmes?

Attitudes toward Female Circumcision among Men and Women in Two Districts in Somalia: Is It Time to Rethink Our Eradication Strategy in Somalia?

The Singular Destiny of Facing Mount Kenya. The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu (1938) by Jomo Kenyatta. A Contribution to the Anthropology of Knowledge

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