User:Cox Marguerite

About Me: I am a junior at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. I am a member of the Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities program. Last spring, I worked on the article "Female genital mutilation in the US". I am excited to work on another page this spring. I am considering editing the page "Decriminalizing sex work".

Sources - Female genital mutilation in the US

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"Female Genital Mutilation Outlawed In United States." BMJ: British Medical Journal 313, no. 7065 (1996): 1103. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29733347.

Palfrey, Judith S. "US Policy on Genital Cutting." BMJ: British Medical Journal 341, no. 7766 (2010): 218. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20734936.

Kmietowkz, Zosia. "UK Colleges Criticise US Advice on Female Genital Mutilation." BMJ: British Medical Journal 340, no. 7756 (2010): 1103. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40702226.

Wanda K. Jones, Jack Smith, Burney Kieke, Jr., and Lynne Wilcox. "Who Is at Risk in the U.S.?" Public Health Reports (1974-) 112, no. 5 (1997): 368-77. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4598166.

Hellsten, S. K. "Rationalising Circumcision: From Tradition to Fashion, from Public Health to Individual Freedom: Critical Notes on Cultural Persistence of the Practice of Genital Mutilation." Journal of Medical Ethics 30, no. 3 (2004): 248-53. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27719194.

Caldwell, John C., I. O. Orubuloye, and Pat Caldwell. "Female Genital Mutilation: Conditions of Decline." Population Research and Policy Review 19, no. 3 (2000): 233-54. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40230269.

"Doctors Are Seeing Mutilated Women in U.s." Off Our Backs 28, no. 4 (1998): 4. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20836037.

WADE, LISA. "DEFINING GENDERED OPPRESSION IN U.S. NEWSPAPERS: The Strategic Value of "Female Genital Mutilation"." Gender and Society 23, no. 3 (2009): 293-314. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20676782.

Edit Proposal - Female genital mutilation in the United States

Hello fellow Wikipedians! I plan on editing the page “Female genital mutilation in the United States”. I will be correcting grammatical errors throughout the article, and adding additional information. I will be adding to the Introduction so that it is more substantial. Once the Introduction is more substantial, I will be removing the Overview section. I will be adding more information about the history of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in the United States. I will be adding to the Prevalence section, and adding a substantial amount of data from the major studies conducted. I will describe the methods used to collect this data, as well as the difficulties encountered by those performing the studies. Lastly, I will be adding a section about the controversy surrounding the American Academy of Pediatricians’ discussion of the possibility of “genital nicking” as an option to avoid more drastic measures.

Sources

Kmietowkz, Zosia. "UK Colleges Criticise US Advice on Female Genital Mutilation." BMJ: British Medical Journal 340, no. 7756 (2010): 1103. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40702226.

This source explains the controversy of the American Academy of Pediatricians.

Jones, W K., J Smith, B Kieke and L Wilcox. "Female genital mutilation." Female circumcision. Who is at risk in the U.S.? Public Health Reports 112 (1997): 377. This source has information about the statistics collected about the number of women and girls at risk in America.

Goldberg, Howard, Paul Stupp, Ekwutosi Okoroh, Ghenet Besera, David Goodman, and Isabella Danel. "Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the United States: Updated Estimates of Women and Girls at Risk, 2012." This article also has information about the statistics and the methods used to gather them.

"Female Genital Mutilation Outlawed In United States." BMJ: British Medical Journal 313, no. 7065 (1996): 1103. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29733347.

This article, from 1996, provides a perspective into the initial outlaw of FGM/C in the United States.