Female circumcision : multicultural perspectives

Introduction: The habit of having a problem / Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf - "Should this be your face?" Egypt Nubian women's circumcision / Fadwa El Guindi - Male and female circumcision: myth of difference / Sami A. Aldeeb Abu - Sahlieh - End community efforts to reduce female sexual cuts in Kenya: Increase consciousness and organize other rituals through Asha Mohamud, Samson Radeny, Karin Ringheim - empower women Community: The story of Deir El Basha / Amal Abdel Hadi - encourage abandonment of female genital excision: Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Mali / Nafissatou J. Diop and Ian Askew - Elimination of harmful traditional actions in Sudan and Rebellion against female genital mutilation Sports / Hamid El Bashir - Babiker Badri eradication of female study group and female circumcision Sultan / Shahira Ahmed - "Grandmother calls three women sad" Women are fighting female circumcision / Raqiya D. Abd Alla - double edged sword: use of criminal law for female genital cutting / Audrey Macklin - Ka in African sing asylum / Charles Piot - Additional notes: Safe harbor and respect / L. Amed O Viola

For the first time in this group, it included the view of the critical "third wave" or multicultural feminist of African women scholars Wairimu Njambi (Kenya) and Fuambai Ahmadu (Sierra Leone). Both women come from culture. There, women and men's rituals are common, and they are writing down their predominantly positive and contextual experience so far one of the global debates on FGC. "Quiet group" will create a new discourse space. Dr. Ahmadou, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, grew up in the United States, then returned to Sierra Leone as an adult and received this process with other members of this process. She believes that program critics exaggerated the medical risks, misunderstood the impact on sexual pleasure, and regarded the clitoral part as a misdirected way to suppress women.

This article describes the issue of liberal multicultural democracy when dealing with cultural practices such as women's circumcision, which itself suppresses autonomy and pluralism liberalist values. In this case, I chose the reason of circumcision of a woman as my problem for three reasons. Firstly, as immigrants have increased, this practice has gained widespread attention in Western multicultural societies and pluralist societies Secondly, when this cruel and discriminatory tradition should be put in the past I think that it came. Thirdly, the victim's paradox of this practice, often the one who strongly supports it, is a good question of the issues faced by liberal democracy when dealing with autonomy and tolerance issues in real life For example.