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• 03 Jan 12
  

  La Carpa Roja

  Texto en el que se retoma el debate en torno a la mutilación de los genitales femeninos que se acostumbra en algunos grupos africanos.

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• 21 May 10
  

  Michael Cook

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• 25 Feb 09
  

  Mercury Chaos

  "It is difficult for me — considering the number of ceremonies I have observed, including my own — to accept that what appears to be expressions of joy and ecstatic celebrations of womanhood in actuality disguise hidden experiences of coercion and subjuga

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• 18 Dec 07
  

  Adam Bohannon

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  • Dr. Shweder says that many Westerners trying to impose a “zero tolerance” policy don’t realize that these initiation rites are generally controlled not by men but by women who believe it is a cosmetic procedure with aesthetic benefits. He criticizes Americans and Europeans for outlawing it at the same they endorse their own forms of genital modification, like the circumcision of boys or the cosmetic surgery for women called “vaginal rejuvenation.”
• 03 Dec 07
  

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