Female circumcision (also known by the value-laden term female genital mutilation) is one of the practices that has been repeatedly used by the west to criticize and label Arabs, Muslims and Africans as barbaric, uncivilized and against female equality. First of all there is the fact that 1. not all Arabs perform it so it’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Science’
Intersexuality and genital mutilation
Posted in Gender, Intersexuality, Medicine, Science, tagged Genital mutilation, Intersexuality, Medicine, Science on April 12, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Science & objectivity
Posted in Reproduction, Science, Sexism, tagged Reproduction, Science, Sexism, Women on April 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Many of us were raised in contexts that valued science above all other ways of understanding the world. Science was above religion, above social “sciences”, above local knowledges. This was largely due to the fact that it was seen as more objective than any other form of knowledge. It was only recently that I started to question [...]
