A Community Based efforts of Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation

Amal Khalil (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

52 Seiten

2020
Scholars' Press (Verlag)
978-613-8-92237-7 (ISBN)

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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a form of gender-based violence that threatens their health and a violation of female human rights. Although much work has been done to tackle this practice in Egypt, UNICEF (2016) has reported that, the prevalence of FGM remains high in Africa and the Middle East. This work aimed at throwing the light on the real and hoped perspectives of FGM. Real perspectives are embodied in the community-based study conducted by the authors to investigate the effectiveness of an educational program at changing the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of schoolteachers towards FGM. In this regard, overview about FGM in terms of definitions and concepts, types, prevalence, reasons for taking the act, consequences, historical and Islamic perspectives, surrounding debates, efforts for eliminating the act. In addition to, reasons for choosing female teachers as participants, female teachers' opinions about their own circumcision status, and extra discussed issues with the study participants rather than the educational program contents and reasons for choosing primary school as the setting are elaborated.

Khalil, Amal Dr. Amal I. Khalil, got her Ph.D. in 2004, and had been promoted as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and mental health nursing in 2013 by Supreme Council of Universities, Cairo University, Egypt. Dr. Khalil works at faculty of Nursing, Menoufyia University in Shebin-Alkom, Egypt. Dr. Khalil has more than 30 publications.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2020
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	91 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Female circumcision • Female Genital Cutting • Female genital distortion • Female Genital Mutilation • Purification • ritual cleanliness
ISBN-10	613-8-92237-9 / 6138922379
ISBN-13	978-613-8-92237-7 / 9786138922377
Zustand	Neuware