The role of the SCPHN school nurse in raising awareness of female genital mutilation

Migration has resulted in specialist community public health nurses (SCPHN), specifically SCPHN school nurses, encountering female genital mutilation (FGM) more commonly in practice, requiring them to upskill to offer support and raise awareness ( Robinson, 2011 ). A policy was critically analysed, and a literature review conducted, to identify evidence-based strategies to enable the SCPHNSN to effectively raise FGM awareness to school-aged pupils. The findings highlighted three themes – Education, cultural influence and community leader and FGM survivor engagement, which translated into practice as a SCPHNSN-led FGM education project ( Diop and Askew, 2009 , Adeniran et al. 2015 , Galukande et al. 2015 , Raible et al. 2017 , Connelly et al. 2018 , Johnson et al. 2018 ). A project such as this would enable the SCPHNSN to raise pupil awareness, increase knowledge of support services, achieving practice decline over time.

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Female Genital Mutilation: The Role of Health Professionals in Prevention, Assessment and Management

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e516542013-335 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Kerry Robinson ◽

Deborah Hodes

Keyword(s):

Health Professionals ◽

Female Genital Mutilation ◽

Genital Mutilation ◽

Female Genital

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Female genital mutilation and the role of health-care practitioners

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health ◽

10.1111/jpc.13575 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 53 (6) ◽

pp. 523-524 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David Isaacs ◽

Bernadette Tobin

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Female Genital Mutilation ◽

Genital Mutilation ◽

Health Care Practitioners ◽

Female Genital

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The timing of female genital mutilation and the role of contralateral palpal insertions in the spider Cyclosa argenteoalba

Royal Society Open Science ◽

10.1098/rsos.170860 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (11) ◽

pp. 170860 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kensuke Nakata

Keyword(s):

Female Genital Mutilation ◽

Basal Part ◽

Mating Frequency ◽

Genital Mutilation ◽

The One ◽

Female Genital

Some male spiders exhibit female genital mutilation behaviour (FGM) by removing the female genital appendage (scape) to control the mating frequency of females. Female spiders have two, i.e. right and left, genital openings connected with separate spermathecae into which males transfer sperm successively using one pedipalp (secondary genitalia) at a time. Thus, males must complete at least two palpal insertions to fill both spermathecae, before FGM. The present study examined whether (i) scape removal is only associated with the second palpal insertion (one-action hypothesis) or (ii) two contralateral palpal insertions facilitate FGM, with each insertion cutting the basal part of the scape halfway (two-actions hypothesis). Experiments in which females were replaced after a male had made the first insertion did not support the one-action hypothesis, because scapes remained intact after the newly introduced virgin females received their first palpal insertion, which was the second insertion by the males. In comparison, mating experiments using two half-eunuchs (i.e. one of the palps of each male had been manually removed, forcing them to fill female spermatheca on one side only) supported the two-actions hypothesis. FGM was more frequent in females that received two contralateral palpal insertions than in females that received ipsilateral insertions.

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Perversion and Perpetration in Female Genital Mutilation Law: The Unmaking of Women as Bearers of Law

Social & Legal Studies ◽

10.1177/0964663919856681 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 273-293 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maree Pardy ◽

Juliet Rogers ◽

Nan Seuffert

Keyword(s):

Female Genital Mutilation ◽

New South ◽

Female Genital Cutting ◽

Demonic Possession ◽

Genital Mutilation ◽

South Wales ◽

Genital Cutting ◽

English Speaking ◽

Female Genital

Female genital cutting (FGC) or, more controversially, female genital mutilation, has motivated the implementation of legislation in many English-speaking countries, the product of emotive images and arguments that obscure the realities of the practices of FGC and the complexity of the role of the practitioner. In Australia, state and territory legislation was followed, in 2015, with a conviction in New South Wales highlighting the problem with laws that speak to fantasies of ‘mutilation’. This article analyses the positioning of Islamic women as victims of their culture, represented as performing their roles as vehicles for demonic possession, unable to authorize agency or law. Through a perverse framing of ‘mutilation’, and in the case through the interpretation of the term ‘mutilation’, practices of FGC as law performed by women are obscured, avoiding the challenge of a real multiculturalism that recognises lawful practices of migrant cultures in democratic countries.

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