Ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia

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Two girls with their arms round each other in front of playing children: campaign against female circumcision in Kenya. Colour lithograph after E.K. Migwi for the Family Planning Association of Kenya, 1997.

A group of people hold a placard up announding 'Stop female circumcision' in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Family Planning Association of Kenya, May 1998.

A white chart containing Arabic text about female genital mutilation in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Ahfad Reproductive Health Centre, ca. 1999.

A woman caught in a spider web: female genital mutilation in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Ahfad Reproductive Health Centre, ca. 1999.

A woman shielding her face with her hand from a razor dripping with blood: female genital mutilation in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Ahfad Reproductive Health Centre, ca. 1999.

A father with a stick pulls his daughter, a school girl towards a seated man: preventing female circumcision in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Family Planning Association of Kenya, ca. 2000.

Campaign against female genital mutilation in Djibouti. Colour lithograph by A. Rachid and A. Djama for Ministère de la Santé MGF project, ca. 2010.

A man addresses an elderly woman as a girl approaches: dangers of circumcision to girls in Kenya. Colour lithograph by J. Ouma for Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organisation, 1998.

Circumcision of women : a strategy for eradication / Olayinka Koso-Thomas.

Against the mutilation of women : the struggle to end unnecessary suffering / by Lilian Passmore Sanderson.

Prisoners of ritual : an odyssey into female genital circumcision in Africa / Hanny Lightfoot-Klein.

Female genital excision, Ubangi Shari: the operation being performed on an Mbakwa-Manja girl. Photograph by A.M. Vergiat.

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Circumcision, Female

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A man addresses an elderly woman as a girl approaches: dangers of circumcision to girls in Kenya. Colour lithograph by J. Ouma for Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organisation, 1998.

Circumcision of women : a strategy for eradication / Olayinka Koso-Thomas.

Against the mutilation of women : the struggle to end unnecessary suffering / by Lilian Passmore Sanderson.

Prisoners of ritual : an odyssey into female genital circumcision in Africa / Hanny Lightfoot-Klein.

Female genital excision, Ubangi Shari: the operation being performed on an Mbakwa-Manja girl. Photograph by A.M. Vergiat.

Circumcision, Female

Images from the collections

Images referencing Circumcision, Female

Works from the collections

A man addresses an elderly woman as a girl approaches: dangers of circumcision to girls in Kenya. Colour lithograph by J. Ouma for Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organisation, 1998.

Circumcision of women : a strategy for eradication / Olayinka Koso-Thomas.

Against the mutilation of women : the struggle to end unnecessary suffering / by Lilian Passmore Sanderson.

Prisoners of ritual : an odyssey into female genital circumcision in Africa / Hanny Lightfoot-Klein.

Female genital excision, Ubangi Shari: the operation being performed on an Mbakwa-Manja girl. Photograph by A.M. Vergiat.

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