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Circumcision, Female

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Body Modification, Non-Therapeutic
Initiation rites
Clitoris - Surgery

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Images about Circumcision, Female

9 images from works
  • 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.
  • 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.

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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.

    | Date: 1998 | Reference: 755386i
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    Circumcision of women : a strategy for eradication / Olayinka Koso-Thomas.

    Koso-Thomas, Olayinka | Date: [1987]
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    Against the mutilation of women : the struggle to end unnecessary suffering / by Lilian Passmore Sanderson.

    Sanderson, Lilian Passmore. | Date: 1981
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    Prisoners of ritual : an odyssey into female genital circumcision in Africa / Hanny Lightfoot-Klein.

    Lightfoot-Klein, Hanny. | Date: [1989], ©1989
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    Female genital excision, Ubangi Shari: the operation being performed on an Mbakwa-Manja girl. Photograph by A.M. Vergiat.

    Vergiat, Antonin Marius, 1900- | Date: 1937 | Reference: 644296i
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Related topics

Clitoridectomy
Kenya
Sudan
Infibulation
Women's Rights
Genitalia, Female
Women
Women
History, 20th Century
Sexual Behavior

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