Pain as a counterpoint to culture: toward an analysis of pain associated with infibulation among Somali immigrants in Norway (2008)
This study is a Exploratory research regarding III FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): Johansen R Elise B
FGM/C Type(s): III
Health area of focus: None.
Objective: To examine personal experiences of physical pain and women’s reflections on these experiences,that is,how individual women experience and reflect on female circumcision (in this case infibulation) as lived bodily experience within shifting social and cultural framework
Study Population: Women
Findings: The study found that in Norway,where female circumcision is both condemned and illegal,most of the women have come to reconsider the practice – not merely as a theoretical topic or as a “cultural tradition” to be maintained or abolished but,rather,as part of their embodied and lived experience
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Northern Europe
Country(ies):Norway