The Right to Femininity
Africa | 2004
In the West, these practices are seen as gross abuses of women's rights, fostering pain, illness and difficulties in childbirth. But despite increased legal clampdowns and concerted attempts at re-education, around 6,000 girls a day are still subjected to circumcision. Renowned filmmaker Marion Meyer Hohdahl revisits Africa ten years after her first trip to examine whether attitudes are changing …
