[lbo-talk] Re: circumcision

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Feb 8 06:48:58 PST 2005


Miles Jackson wrote:


>It's pretty easy for us to rhetorically strut around assuming
>our moral superiority, but anybody's who has seriously
>studied FGM knows it's a convoluted tangle of ethical
>ambiguities.
>
>Consider:
>1. The practices are accepted by, carried out by, and encouraged
>by the vast majority of women in these societies.

So was footbinding, no?



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