Islam and "female circumcision": The dispute over FGM in the Egyptian press, September 1994

Medicine and Law

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 403-418

  Kedar, Mordechai ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clitoridectomy; FGM (Female Genital Mutilation), female circumcision; Khitan, Islam; Reduction; Tradition, media, CNN

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EGYPT; FEMALE; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MOSLEM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLICATION; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 0036070265     PISSN: 07231393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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