Ukeketaji

Ukeketaji (pia: tohara ya mwanamke; kwa Kiingereza: female circumcision, female genital mutilation; kifupi: FGM) ni tendo la kukata sehemu za nje za viungo vya uzazi vya mwanamke.

Neno linalotokana na mzizi keket, ambao unabeba maana ya kuharibu.

Mara nyingi tendo la ukeketaji linaitwa pia "tohara" kwa kulifananisha na upasuaji mdogo wa wanaume, lakini mambo ni tofauti kabisa.

Hapa sehemu za nje za viungo vya uzazi zinakatwa kusudi wasifurahie sana tendo la ndoa, hivyo wawe waaminifu zaidi kwa waume wao. 

Ukeketaji umeenea hasa kati ya mataifa na makabila wenye asili ya bonde la Naili na majirani wao. 

Kinyume na tohara ya wavulana matabibu wanaona hasara nyingi katika desturi hiyo. Ukeketaji unasababisha wasichana wengi kufa na wengine wengi kupatwa na maumivu makali wakati wa hedhi, wa tendo la ndoa na wa kujifungua. 

Kwa sababu hizo serikali nyingi za dunia zimeupiga marufuku. 

Pia madhehebu kadhaa yanatoa mafundisho kuwa ni kinyume cha masharti ya dini yao.

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Marejeo

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El Guindi, Fadwa. "Had This Been Your Face, Would You Leave It as Is?" in Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf (ed.), Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
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 Kirby, Vicki. "Out of Africa: 'Our Bodies Ourselves'?" in Obioma Nnaemeka (ed.), Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses, Praeger, 2005.
 Knight, Mary. "Curing Cut or Ritual Mutilation?: Some Remarks on the Practice of Female and Male Circumcision in Graeco-Roman Egypt", Isis, 92(2), June 2001, pp. 317–338.
 Korieh, Chima. Other' Bodies: Western Feminism, Race and Representation in Female Circumcision Discourse," in Obioma Nnaemeka (ed.), Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses, Praeger, 2005.
 Lane, Sandra D. and Rubinstein, Robert A. "Judging the Other: Responding to Traditional Female Genital Surgeries" , Hastings Center Report, 26(3), May–June 1996, pp. 31–40.
 Liao, Lih Mei and Creighton, Sarah M. "Requests for cosmetic genitoplasty: how should healthcare providers respond?", British Medical Journal, 334(7603), 26 May 2007, pp. 1090–1092.
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 Lightfoot-Klein, Hanny. Prisoners of Ritual: An Odyssey Into Female Genital Circumcision in Africa, Routledge, 1989.
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 Mackie, Gerry. "Female Genital Cutting: The Beginning of the End," in Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund (eds.), Female "Circumcision" in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000, pp. 253–282 (also here).
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 Mufaka, Kenneth. "Scottish Missionaries and the Circumcision Controversy in Kenya, 1900–1960", International Review of Scottish Studies, 28, 2003.
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 Neusner, Jacob. Approaches to Ancient Judaism, Volume 4, Scholars Press, 1993.
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Marejeo mengine


Hoja

 "Factsheet on FGM", World Health Organization, February 2013.
 British National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 24-hour national helpline for children at risk of FGM: 0800 028 3550
 FORWARD, London, charity specializing in FGM research (FORWARD's list of hospitals and clinics in the UK offering specialist FGM services ).
 Desert Flower Foundation ("First Desert Flower Center opens in Berlin" , 16 September 2013, first dedicated FGM clinic in Europe).
 "Circumcision, female" , The Kinsey Institute (bibliography 1960s–1980s).
 Westley, David M. "Female circumcision and infibulation in Africa" , Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography, 4, 1999 (bibliography up to 1997).
 The Guardian. FGM archive.
 The Guardian.  "The facts about female genital mutilation – interactive", interactive display showing facts and figures from UNICEF, 22 July 2013.

Vitabu, makala

 Bryk, Felix. Circumcision in Man and Woman: Its History, Psychology, and Ethnology, The Minerva Group, Inc., 2001, first published 1934.
 CNN. Report on FGM in Egypt, February 2009.
 Cullen-Dupont, Kathryn. "Female genital mutilation," Encyclopedia of Women's History in America, Da Capo Press, 1998, p. 85.
 Dorkenoo, Efua. "Combating Female Genital Mutilation: An Agenda for the Next Decade," in Mona Eliasson (ed.). Teaching about Violence Against Women, Feminist Press at CUNY, 1999.
 Dorkenoo, Efua. "Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation, the Practice and its Prevention, Minority Rights Group, 1994.
 Kouba, Leonard J. and Muasher, Judith. "Female Circumcision in Africa: An Overview", African Studies Review, 28(1), March 1985, pp. 95–110.
 Sanderson, Lillian Passmore. Against the Mutilation of Women: The Struggle to End Unnecessary Suffering, Ithaca Press, 1981.
 Sembène, Ousmane. Moolaadé, 2004, a film about abandoning FGM.
 Sinclair, Stephanie. "Inside a Female-Circumcision Ceremony", The New York Times magazine, April 2006, slideshow of images from Indonesia (article).
 UNICEF. "Towards the abandonment of female genital mutilation in five African countries", October 2010.
 Yoder, P. Stanley; Noureddine, Abderrahim; Arlinda, Zhuzhuni. "Female Genital Cutting in the Demographic and Health Surveys: A Critical and Comparative Analysis" , DHS Comparative Reports No. 7, 2004.

Habari za maisha ya watu

 Ali, Ayaan Hirsi. Infidel: My Life, Simon & Schuster, 2007: Ali experiences FGM at the hands of her grandmother.
 Dirie, Waris. Desert Flower, Harper Perennial, 1999: autobiographical novel.
 Dirie, Waris. Desert Dawn,  Little, Brown, 2003: Dirie's work as UN Special Ambassador against FGM.
 Dirie, Waris. Desert Children,  Virago, 2007: FGM in Europe
 Kasinga, Fauziya, and Bashir, Layli Miller. Do They Hear You When You Cry, Delacorte Press, 1998.
 El Saadawi, Nawal. Woman at Point Zero'',  Zed Books, 1975.

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