Asha Ismail Hussein, a survivor

Fortunately, clitoral ablation is now a receding practice, but it is still practiced in around 30 countries in the Sahel strip, from Somalia to Senegal. This kind of violence affects 3 million girls every year in Africa and the Middle East, having affected 125 million women. Western European ethnoce...

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Autores principales: Alvarez Uría, Fernando, Castillo Burgos, Patricia, de Miguel Cabrejas, Blanca, Cerro Tardón, Rocio del Pilar
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Grupo de Investigación Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales. Cibersomosaguas 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/56537
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=es/es-028&d=article56537oai
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Sumario:Fortunately, clitoral ablation is now a receding practice, but it is still practiced in around 30 countries in the Sahel strip, from Somalia to Senegal. This kind of violence affects 3 million girls every year in Africa and the Middle East, having affected 125 million women. Western European ethnocentrism too often makes invisible the women suffering this violence, which is both physical and symbolic. Once again, critical sociology tries to respond to the social demand of making visible what is invisible—on this occasion resourcing to life stories, such as the one of Asha Ismail Hussein—and hence contribute to banish the intolerable situations from society.