Embodiment, Pain, and Circumcision in Somali-Canadian Women

Female genital cutting/circumcision/mutilation (FGC) is found predominantly in the Sahel, Northern Africa, removing parts/all of the clitoris, labia minora and majora in girls. Cutting the highly innervated external genitalia may change sensory processing leading to chronic pain. Fourteen Somali wom...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glazer, Emily
Other Authors: Einstein, Gillian
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32573