Movement frames and African women’s explanations for opposing female genital cutting (2006)
This study is a Descriptive research regarding All FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): Boyle E,Carbone-López K
FGM/C Type(s): All
Health area of focus: None.
Objective: To address how people account for their beliefs in FGM and what social factors affect or determine those accounts
Study Population: Women
Findings: The study concluded that although international anti-FGM/C activists employ medical and human rights frames to combat the practice,most of the women surveyed did not use these frames to account for their opposition to FGM/C. Rather,they tended to explain their opposition simply by stating female genital cutting is a ‘bad tradition.’ Based on descriptive statistics and the results of HGLM analyses,the authors of the study concluded that 1) the importance of frame resonance for movement adherence varies across groups,2) frame resonance is less important to ‘adherents’ whose supportive attitudes predate mobilization,3) personal factors,such as being circumcised,exposure to western influence,and independence,increase the likelihood that adherents will link into international activist frames,and 4) the medical frame is more persuasive than the human rights frame for African anti-FGC adherents
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Western Africa,Eastern Africa,Middle Africa,Northern Africa
Country(ies):Central African Republic,Egypt,Kenya,Mali,Sudan