Citation

Olubanke Akintunde D. Fem. Theol. 2010; 18(2): 192-205.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0966735009348667

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article uses the voices of women to investigate the horror of the cultural practice of female genital mutilation. Case studies graphically illustrate the way in which the bodies of young girls are literally moulded for male satisfaction, physical, religious and cultural. Female genital mutilation is a socio-cultural offensive against women and young girls which we would join with female theologians in condemning.