Please note this is not intended to be an exhaustive list of resources - there are many organisations, articles, books, essays and so on on this subject.

Amnesty International: www.amnesty.org

BBC: www.bbc.co.uk

Forward: www.forward.dircon.co.uk

The Guardian: www.guardian.co.uk

International Planned Parenthood
Federation (IPPF): www.ippf.org

New Internationalist Magazine: www.newint.org

RAINBO: www.rainbo.org

Save the Children: www.scfuk.org.uk

United Nations: www.un.org

United Nations Children's
Fund (UNICEF): www.unicef.org

WomenAid: www.womenaid.org

WOMANKIND Worldwide: www.womankind.org.uk

World Health Organisation (WHO): www.who.int



We suggest that you use the following key words to search the recommended sites:

Female Genital Mutilation

FGM

Female Circumcision

Boddy, Janice.
"The Symbolic Context of Pharaonic Circumcision in Rural Northern Sudan" in The Gender Sexuality Reader Eds: Roger N Lancaster & Micaela di Leonardo
(London: Routledge,1997)

Sheehan, Elizabeth A.
"Isaac Baker Brown and His Harmless Operative Procedure" in The Gender Sexuality Reader Eds: Roger N Lancaster & Micaela di Leonardo
(London: Routledge 1997)

Talle, A.
"Transfroming Women into Pure Agnates: Aspects of Female Infibulation in Somalia" in Carved Flesh, Cast Selves. Eds: V Broch-Due, I Rudie & T Bleie
(Berg 1994)

Toubia, Nahid.
"Female Genital Mutilation" in Women's Rights Human Rights Eds: Julie Peters and Andrea Wolper
(London: Routledge, 1995)


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