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and other UN bodies, she has argued that the health risks of most types of FGM are exaggerated, its effect on women's sexuality misunderstood, and that most affected women do not experience it as an oppressive practice. Ahmadu's views are shared by several other anthropologists.
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Ahmadu, Fuambai S.; Shweder, Richard A. (December 2009). "Disputing the myth of the sexual dysfunction of circumcised women: An interview with Fuambai S. Ahmadu by Richard A. Shweder".
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Ahmadu, Fuambai (2000). "Rites and Wrongs: An Insider/Outsider Reflects on Power and Excision", in Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund (eds.).
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Hernlund, Ylva (2003). "Childhood: Coming of Age Rituals", in Suad Joseph, Afsāna Naǧmābādī (eds.).
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Londoño Sulkin, Carlos D. (December 2009). "Anthropology, liberalism and female genital cutting".
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and undertook post-doctoral work at the Department of Comparative Human Development,
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Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Family, Body, Sexuality And Health
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Female "circumcision" in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change
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Ahmadu obtained her PhD in social anthropology from the
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London School of Economics
Anthropology
University of Chicago
Sierra Leonean
American
UNICEF
Medical Research Council
London School of Economics
University of Chicago
female genital mutilation
Kono ethnic group
Bundu
World Health Organization
UNICEF
Tucker Carlson
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"About Fuambai"
283–312
doi
10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00699.x
S2CID
17286057
"A New Debate on Female Circumcision"
"Anthropologist defends "female circumcision""
Tweet
Twitter
Personal website

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