Male circumcision, the focus of my previous post (Rites of Circumcision, posted October 10, 2018), although not universal, occurs widely. Female genital mutilation (FGM)— also called genital cutting ...

Ellen Gruenbaum, who has conducted research in Sudan and Sierra Leone on the practice of female genital cutting and the social movements against “harmful traditional practices,” will discuss her work ...

An interesting issue of the journal Global Discourse, on Gender Equality in Abrahamic Circumcision: Why or Why Not?, edited by Ingvild Bergom Lunde and Matthew Thomas Johnson; here's the Introduction, ...

At a market in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, a community theater group uses performance to help raise awareness about female genital mutilation (FGM). A day to join a global movement to protect ...