Page "Female genital mutilation" Paragraph 13

Sudanese surgeon Nahid Toubia — president of RAINBO ( Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women ) — told the BBC in 2002 that campaigning against FGM involved trying to change women's consciousness: " By allowing your genitals to be removed is perceived that you are heightened to another level of pure motherhood — a motherhood not tainted by sexuality and that is why the woman gives it away to become the matron, respected by everyone.

By taking on this practice, which is a woman's domain, it actually empowers them.

It is much more difficult to convince the women to give it up, than to convince the men.

" Boyle writes that the Masai of Tanzania will not call a woman " mother " when she has children if she is uncircumcised.