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In 2006, the book Victoire sur l’excision: Pierre Foldès, le chirurgien qui redonne l’espoir aux femmes mutilées was published, which chronicles the work of Foldès. It won the Prix Essai France Télévisions for 2006, [10] and it was translated into English by Tobe Levin. [11]
Type II (excision) is the complete or partial removal of the inner labia, with or without removal of the clitoral glans and outer labia. Type IIa is removal of the inner labia; Type IIb, removal of the clitoral glans and inner labia; and Type IIc, removal of the clitoral glans, inner and outer labia. Excision in French can refer to any form of ...
Diaryatou Bah (born 1985) is a feminist and secular activist from Guinea.. Based in France, she is the founder of the organization Espoirs et Combats des femmes ("Women's Hopes and Struggles"), which opposes female genital mutilation and violence against women.
In 2002, Mali created a government program aimed at discouraging FGM (Ordinance No. 02-053 portant creation du programme national de lutte contre la pratique de l’excision [Ordinance creating a National Program to Fight the Practice of Female Genital Mutilation]). [121] There is no specific legislation criminalizing FGM. [69] [120]
Woman's initiation is synonymous with women's power in Sierra Leone, and the act of excision is a reminder that women are from which all human creation is derived. Bondo elders claim that excision improves sexual satisfaction as it removes focus from the clitoris onto the hidden g-spot inside the vaginal canal which they believe has more ...
The Kikuyu regarded female genital mutilation, which they called irua or circumcision, [6] as an important rite of passage between childhood and adulthood. [7] " Irua" consisted largely of three procedures: removal of the clitoral glans (clitoridectomy or Type I); removal of the clitoral glans and inner labia (excision or Type II); and removal of all the external genitalia and the suturing of ...
A clitoridectomy is often done to remove malignancy or necrosis of the clitoris. This is sometimes done along with a radical complete vulvectomy.Surgery may also become necessary due to therapeutic radiation treatments to the pelvic area.
Clitoral hood reduction, also termed clitoral hoodectomy, [1] clitoral unhooding, clitoridotomy, [2] [3] or (partial) hoodectomy, is a plastic surgery procedure (a form of vulvoplasty) for reducing the size and the area of the clitoral hood in order to further expose the glans of the clitoris.