Twelve / Equality, Not Special Protection

Ahmadu, Fuambai

doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226501710.003.0013

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“…Now consider another woman in the same context, perceived to be of a "Western" cultural background, who requests an anatomically indistinguishable (or even more physically invasive) surgical procedure to modify her non-diseased clitoral hood or labia for what could more readily be described as "purely cosmetic" reasons: for example, clitoral "unhooding" (i.e., WHO FGM Type 1a) or labiaplasty (i.e., WHO FGM Type 2a). Notwithstanding the facially equal relevance of the "anti-FGM" laws to her case, in practice, she may be more likely to have her genital modification preferences accommodated [76].…”

Section: Two Types Of Female Genital Modification-or Two Perceivedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Child genital cutting and surgery across cultures, sex, and gender. Part 2: assessing consent and medical necessity in “endosex” modifications

Earp

Abdulcadir

Liao³

2023

Int J Impot Res

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Section: Two Types Of Female Genital Modification-or Two Perceivedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Child genital cutting and surgery across cultures, sex, and gender. Part 2: assessing consent and medical necessity in “endosex” modifications

Earp

Abdulcadir

Liao³

2023

Int J Impot Res

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“…Ultimately, the case embodies a decades-old debate between cultural relativists and universalists (e.g. Ahmadu, 2017;Brennan, 1989;Lionnet, 2005), with at its core the question of how universal the Universal Declaration of Human Rights really is and who gets to decide about women's bodies.…”

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Is Anti-FGM Legislation Cultural Imperialism? Interrogating Kenya's Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act

Bavel

2022

Social & Legal Studies

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Postcolonial feminists and anthropologists have criticised anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) efforts for being ethnocentric and for imposing ‘Western’ values onto African communities. Recently, a Kenyan medical doctor has petitioned against Kenya's Prohibition of FGM Act, arguing that the Act is unconstitutional and the entrenchment of Western values. This article critically interrogates the allegation that African legislation against ‘FGM’ (FGM) embodies the culturally-imperialist imposition of Western values by empirically examining how Kenya's anti-FGM Act was produced and became contested. The findings show that international power hierarchies influence who can speak and what can be said about FGM. However, the findings simultaneously challenge the Africa/West and cultural relativism/imperialism divide present in some of the critiques of anti-FGM legislation and interventions. I argue that the notion of ‘imposition’ does not adequately capture the African agency and the transnational collaborations that went into both producing and contesting the Act.

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Female Genital Alteration

Jacobs

2021

Assigning Responsibility for Children’s Health When Parents and Authorities Disagree: Whose Child?

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Twelve / Equality, Not Special Protection

Cited by 23 publications

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Child genital cutting and surgery across cultures, sex, and gender. Part 2: assessing consent and medical necessity in “endosex” modifications

Child genital cutting and surgery across cultures, sex, and gender. Part 2: assessing consent and medical necessity in “endosex” modifications

Is Anti-FGM Legislation Cultural Imperialism? Interrogating Kenya's Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act

Female Genital Alteration

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