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The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women: some reasonable doubts
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Muslim women of the Dawoodi Bohra community have recently been prosecuted because they customarily adhere to a religiously based gender-inclusive version of the Jewish Abrahamic circumcision tradition. In Dawoodi Bohra families it is not only boys but also girls who are circumcised. And it is mothers who typically control and arrange for the circumcision of their daughters. By most accounts the circumcision procedure for girls amounts to a nick, abrasion, piercing or small cut restricted to the female foreskin or prepuce (often referred to as ‘the clitoral hood’ or in some parts of Southeast Asia as the ‘clitoral veil’). From a strictly surgical point of view the custom is less invasive than a typical male circumcision as routinely and legally performed by Jews and Muslims. The question arises: if the practice is legal for the gander why should it be banned for the goose?
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“Rather, a failure to understand the complexities of, and commonalties between, male and female genital cutting practices has real-world consequences.”
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“where they have been incorporated into a gender-inclusive ritual [70] that involves genital modification of both sexes, this may constitute one of the least appropriate examples of a cultural practice that can monolithically be described as either reflecting “deep-rooted inequality between the sexes” or constituting “an extreme form of discrimination against women.””
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- Authors
- Shweder, R. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- Corresponding author
- Shweder, Richard A.
- ORCID
- Shweder, Richard A.
- Venue
- Global Discourse
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Published
- 2022-02
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 9-27
- ISSN
- 2043-7897 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3156348114
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 21
- FWCI
- 6.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Global Discourse (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Knowledge@UChicago (University of Chicago) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- University of Chicago (cc-by)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues
- Social Sciences › Law › Religious Freedom and Discrimination
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
- Keywords
- female genital mutilation, religious freedom, criminal prosecution, Muslim women, prepuce, human rights
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