Seven Things to Know about Female Genital Surgeries in Africa
Seven Things to Know about Female Genital Surgeries in Africa
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DOI：
10.1002/hast.81
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发表时间：
2012-11-01
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3.3
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从1980年代初开始，媒体对非洲女性传统生殖器手术的报道一直存在问题，并且过度依赖于全球活动家和倡导运动内部的消息来源，这些活动家和倡导运动反对这种做法，这些做法被称为切割女性生殖器，切割女性生殖器或女性割礼。在这里，我们使用更中性的表达女性生殖器手术。在他们结束这种做法的热情中，反切割倡导组织经常声称非洲的女性生殖器手术是不准确的或过于笼统的，或者不适用于大多数情况。这篇文章的目的是作为一个公共政策咨询声明，我们提供了一组有关的研究学者，医生和政策专家，不是对女性或男性的生殖器手术的做法采取集体立场。我们的主要目的是表达我们对媒体报道非洲女性生殖器手术的关切，呼吁更准确地描述鲜为人知的其他人的文化，并在未来的任何公共政策辩论中努力做到不偏不倚，理性和证据的高标准。实际上，这份声明是一份邀请函，邀请人们进行真正的辩论，让故事的各个方面都得到公平的代表。
Starting in the early 1980s, media coverage of customary African genital surgeries for females has been problematic and overly reliant on sources from within a global activist and advocacy movement opposed to the practice, variously described as female genital mutilation, female genital cutting, or female circumcision. Here, we use the more neutral expression female genital surgery. In their passion to end the practice, anti-mutilation advocacy organizations often make claims about female genital surgeries in Africa that are inaccurate or overgeneralized or that don't apply to most cases. The aim of this articlewhich we offer as a public policy advisory statement from a group of concerned research scholars, physicians, and policy expertsis not to take a collective stance on the practice of genital surgeries for either females or males. Our main aim is to express our concern about the media coverage of female genital surgeries in Africa, to call for greater accuracy in cultural representations of little-known others, and to strive for evenhandedness and high standards of reason and evidence in any future public policy debates. In effect, the statement is an invitation to actually have that debate, with all sides of the story fairly represented.