Mutola Sianga, Pemunta Ngambouk Vitalis, Ngo Ngo Valery, Otang Ogem Irene, Tabenyang Tabi Chama-James
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Department of Global Health, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Int J Sex Health. 2021 Jul 23;34(1):160-168. doi: 10.1080/19317611.2021.1955075. eCollection 2022.
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is one of the most prevalent harmful cultural practices against women and girls in many African countries. We identified reasons for the failure of the legal approach to stop FGC practice in the Ejagham region Southwest of Cameroon through multi-locale ethnographic fieldwork. The reasons revolve around the belief that FGM is useful for the reduction of sexual immorality among women, removal of sexual ambiguity and improving genital esthetics, a feministic symbol and cultural identity, and the government's socio-economic neglect of the Ejagham communities; the basis for resistance. Non-legal approaches involving community development and women empowerment have been proposed for fighting FGC.
女性生殖器切割是许多非洲国家针对妇女和女孩最普遍的有害文化习俗之一。我们通过多地人种志田野调查，确定了喀麦隆西南部埃贾姆地区法律手段未能阻止女性生殖器切割习俗的原因。这些原因围绕着这样一种信念，即女性生殖器切割有助于减少女性的性不道德行为、消除性模糊并改善生殖器美观，是一种女权主义象征和文化身份，以及政府对埃贾姆社区的社会经济忽视；这是抵制的基础。已经提出了涉及社区发展和妇女赋权的非法律方法来打击女性生殖器切割。
