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Interview: Sapphire  -  ‎Nov 18, 2009‎
NOW Toronto...“I remember reading in Alice Walker's Possessing The Secret Of Joy about the act of clitoridectomy. I actually put it down, lay down and slept and then ...

Mad as hell  -  ‎Nov 20, 2009‎
AdelaidenowGainsbourg takes a pair of rusty scissors and performs what some journalists have euphemistically referred to as an "auto-clitoridectomy". ...

Female Genital Cutting  -  ‎Nov 3, 2009‎
EmpowHer (blog)A clitoridectomy is the surgical removal of a woman's clitoris, and sometimes her labia as well. Many modern women would be surprised to learn that this was ...

RONZONE: Genital mutilation: culture vs. humanity  -  ‎Oct 29, 2009‎
Villanovan (subscription)Throughout these areas, female genital mutilation occurs as three procedures, ranging in severity: clitoridectomy, the partial or total removal of the ...

Paula Rego interview  -  ‎Nov 4, 2009‎
Telegraph.co.ukShe has also created series on sex-trafficking, honour killings and clitoridectomy. 'It goes on everywhere; even in England they came here and snip off ...

href=http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2009/07/sexual-mutilation-madness-and-the-media.html"Sexual mutilation, madness and the media  -  ‎Jul 13, 2009‎
Times Online BlogsClitoridectomy is one of those few acts that conference-attenders discussing human rights and the media can uniformly agree is wrong.

href=http://www.swans.com/library/art15/barker24.html"Female Circumcision And The Tahirih Justice Center  -  ‎Jul 12, 2009‎
Swans..."based on a reading of the ethnographic literature which affirmed that the Tchamba of northern Togo practiced clitoridectomy and that it was likely that

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Women on the WebExcision or Clitoridectomy: Removal of the clitoris and all or part of the labia minora. 3. Intermediate: Removal of th clitoris, all or part of the labia

href=http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1023176"Burqas, bans and Ms Bruni  -  ‎Jun 24, 2009‎
The TimesTick if you have had the following: 1) clitoridectomy 2) a black eye before breakfast 3) 15 children. Then there is the issue of immigrant women versus

Former traditional practitioner helps moving towards the ...  -  06 Feb 2009
ReliefWeb (press release),The forms that are practiced in Niger, in particular in the regions of Tillabery, Niamey, and Diffa, are the clitoridectomy (partial or total removal of the

Can we ever learn to love our bodies?  -  Feb 5, 2009
New Statesman,...by cultural interventions in the body, from dress, gait, hairstyle and personal decoration to rite-of-passage scarring, clitoridectomy and foot binding.

Can Religious Faith Justify Reckless Homicide? A Wisconsin ...  -  Feb 4, 2009
FindLaw,And religiously-motivated practices like circumcision for boys and clitoridectomy for girls have increasingly struck people who reject the practices as

Osama bin Laden bids $5M for Natalie Dylan Hymen says Why Wait  -  Jan 14, 2009
OpEdNews,Once these clitoridectomy professionals go through their 72 virgins in the first week, will they be virginless for the rest of their eternal days?

Myths surrounding female genital mutilation  -  Jan 13, 2009
The Tide,Clitoridectomy as indeed ,circumcision among Jews is a bodily mutilation, viewed somehow as the condition sine qua non for receiving a complete religious

Uganda: Crminialise Fgm Now to Save Young Girls  -  Dec 22, 2008
AllAfrica.com,In Type 1 or Clitoridectomy: the clitoris and/or the clitoral hood are partially or totally removed. Type 2 or Excision: Partial or total removal of the

Female cut could earn culprits 7 years in jail  -  Dec 11, 2008
Daily Monitor,In Kapchorwa, FGM involves the partial or total removal of the clitoris and the clitoral hood (Clitoridectomy) to basically kill the sensitivity of the

Kapchorwa’s eternal scars  -  Dec 3, 2008
Daily Monitor,Amongst the Sabiny, FGM involves the partial or total removal of the clitoris and the clitoral hood [Clitoridectomy] to basically kill the sensitivity of

Mashua speaks out against religious, cultural FGM customs FGM  -  Nov 6, 2008
SFA The Pine Log Online,Clitoridectomy-cutting the top of the clitoris so it is flat. 2. Excision-cutting or total removing the clitoris and the labia minora. 3.

Why do you want to hurt me?  -  Nov 15, 2008
New Straits Times,...electrocution, where the patient would be given electric shock if he reacts to homo-erotic material; and surgeries like castration and clitoridectomy,

Our World: The Left's assault on language  -  Nov 3, 2008
Jerusalem Post,Yet Tamir argued in her article, "Hands off Clitoridectomy," published in The Boston Review, it is wrong to oppose the practice because doing so requires a

Writer and fighter  -  Sep 20, 2008
guardian.co.uk,When you think of honour killings, or clitoridectomy, how do we begin to engage with that at all?' One of the ways, perhaps, is through theatre,

Hollinger's postethnic ideal and culturism  -  Jul 11, 2008
American Chronicle,Clitoridectomy and Saudi values do not accord with those of western feminists. But once people with such values move here Hollinger assures us that we will

Female Genital Mutilation and Islam  -  Dec 11, 2007
Blogcritics.org,Moreover, some archaeologists claim that the well preserved Egyptian mummies attest to the presence of clitoridectomy. It is also generally agreed that

Human Angle stories round-up  -  Dec 19, 2007
Vanguard,...sexual ability, health and life that female clitoridectomy (and often removal of labia and obstruction of the urethra and vagina) does.

islam and islamofascism  -  Nov 8, 2007
Global Politician,...endorser of clitoridectomy, slave trader, rapist, polygamist, punched his child bride and endorsed whipping/beating women and ploughing them like fields



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Clitoridectomy is the surgical removal of the clitoris.also known as female genital mutilation.

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