Persistence of tradition or reassessment of cultural practices in exile? Discourses on female circumcision among and about swedish somalis

Transcultural Bodies: Female genital cutting in global context

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 107-134

  Johnsdotter, Sara ^a  

^a MALMÖ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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1. This alleged causal connection has been widely spread by Fran Hosken among others (for example, Koso-Thomas 1987, 27). In The Universal Childbirth Picture Book, translated into French, Arabic, and Somali, there are pictures in the study material, including a drawing of a hand holding a vigorous newborn, below which there is a drawing showing a hand holding a lifeless baby: "In the top row is a happy, lively, newborn baby delivered by a mother with natural genital organs.