The risk of female genital cutting in Europe: Comparing immigrant attitudes toward uncut girls with attitudes in a practicing country
Worldwide, an estimated 200 million girls and women have been subjected to female genital cutting. Female genital cutting is defined as an intentional injury to the female genitalia without medical justification. The practice occurs in at least 29 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. In a...
Main Authors: | Sonja Vogt, Charles Efferson, Ernst Fehr |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2017-12-01
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Series: | SSM: Population Health |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827317300319 |
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