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The documentary Orgasm Inc. made by Liz Canner details a pharmaceutical company’s quest to get a “female arousal” drug approved by the FDA and put out to the market. As Canner followed the development of this drug, she examined how the pharmaceutical company defined the dysfunction they were attempting to treat, as well as exploiting women’s lack of knowledge about what is “healthy” and “normal” in terms of their sexual and reproductive health. In an interview conducted by Canner, a woman who worked

1. What is Female Genital Mutilation to you? a. FGM is a procedure where part of or the entire removal of the outer female private parts or other injury to the female sexual organs for cultural or non-medical reasons. 2. Where is Female Genital Mutilation mainly practiced? a. The practice can be found in communities around the world. In Africa, FGM is practiced among firm communities in 29 countries. Ethnic groups in Asian countries, in the Middle East, in certain communities in South America,

Female Genital Mutilation Carolina Macias HSC 425 Matza-Fall 2016 Word Count- 1537  Abstract/Introduction The World Health Organization, also known by the acronym WHO, has defined female genital mutilation as “procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.” FGM (acronym for female genital mutilation) is highly prevalent in Africa and the Middle East. An estimated 200 million and counting have been victims of this practice (UNICEF New

Female genital mutilation is a procedure practiced in some cultures that can be done in four different ways all involving total or partial removal of the external genitalia of a female for non-medical reasons (World Health Organization). All forms of FGM can lead to severe pain, bleeding, infections, and sometimes death. These symptoms may increase with the type of FGM performed. In Sierra Leone nine out of ten women have gotten this procedure (Foundation). While researching, I discovered some

Female Genital Mutilation is a very large issue in many countries around the world. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) “refers to all procedures including partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons” (WHO, 1). There are four types of FGM, but type I and II are the most common for women and children to partake in. There are about 100-140 million girls and women who are subjected to this harmful practice around the world”

The article, Female Genital Mutilation Is a Canadian Issue Too, explores how the act of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a social justice issues beyond the foreign nations it is associated with. While FGM is associated with countries in Africa and the Middle East where it is seen as the norm, we see cases in our modern and progressive nation. The article first defines FGM as girls being forced to have some or all of their external genitalia cut off and, in some cases, having their vaginal opening

How do people view the body? The answer varies from location, religion and culture. How western cultures view the body and how the body is treated (our body and others) are different from how non western cultures view and treat bodies. We can see the differences in the western and non western bodies in such works as Anne Fadiman’s account of a Hmong child in America and in articles like Genital Surgeries: Gendering Bodies. Along with the many differences between western and non western thoughts

Although women’s rights and equality is progressing in the United States, there are progressing countries trying to achieve their overall gender index rank, which measures the human development of a country. From 2006 to 2014, Egypt 's inequality gender gap index rank has increased significantly from 109 to 129 out of 173 countries of the world (Bekhouche, Hausmann, Tyson, Zahidi). During Ancient Egypt, women and men had the same rights to resources such as personal health, work, and education. But

(FGM), is a very dangerous surgery. It is done to girls of any age, from a few days old to right before their wedding. The most common age is three. In most countries where FGM is practiced the clitoris is considered dangerous to the man. At one point they thought that if a penis touched a clitoris, it would shrivel up and fall off. Girls in Africa and parts of Asia are genitally mutilated for family honor, cleanliness, protection against spells, insurance of virginity and faithfulness to

issues, and both condemned their support of the norm, as Kinsey, Masters, and Johnson were for the most part worried with enhancing conjugal sex. Women's activists in this period, settled upon objectives were to underline the significance of the clitoris, see woman's sexuality as "female sexuality", and to reprimand the two fundamental developments of woman's sexuality in a way that would take into account the improvement of woman's sexual strengthening and office. Koedt, in her content, underscores