Female genital cutting: cultural rights and rites of defiance in northern Tanzania (2009)
This study is a Explanatory research regarding All FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): Winterbottom Anna,Jonneke Koomen,and Gemma Burford
FGM/C Type(s): All
Health area of focus: None.
Objective: To review campaigns against female genital cutting (FGC) directed at Maasai communities in northern Tanzania
Study Population: Maasai communities in northern Tanzania
Findings: The authors argue that campaigns against FGC using educational,health,legal,and human rights–based approaches are at times ineffective and counterproductive when they frame the practice as a “tradition” rooted in a “primitive” and unchanging culture. We suggest that development interventions that do not address local contexts of FGC,including the complex politics and history of interventions designed to eradicate it,can in fact reify and reinscribe the practice as central to Maasai cultural identity.
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Eastern Africa
Country(ies):Tanzania