Commentary. Female circumcision in Nigeria: is it not time for government intervention?

Health Care Analysis 6 (1):27-30 (1998)
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Abstract

The results of a recent survey of Nigerian women might give pause to opponents of female genital mutilation (FGM). One could well argue that if these Nigerian women themselves favour FGM, then it is ironically paternalistic to oppose it. Should Western feminists actually support FGM if it is what women in the South want? I argue in this commentary that such an argument rests on shaky statistical, psychological, medical, political and philosophical grounds. We should go on opposing female genital mutilation with all our power.

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Donna Dickenson
Birkbeck, University of London

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