{"id":2246,"date":"2007-09-20T19:12:39","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T19:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2007-09-20T19:12:39","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T19:12:39","slug":"perhaps-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2246","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps, finally&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Egypt, almost four decades after Dr. Nawal al-Sadaawi first exposed to the west the horror of female genital mutilation there, really is finally getting serious about stopping the practice &#8211; that means, <a href = \"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/20\/world\/africa\/20girls.html?_r=1&#038;th=&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;emc=th&#038;adxnnlx=1190309468-0qP9\/V\/rBR+Jvm1DsIH4TA\">this story suggests<\/a>, both the government and the society. But it is not going to be easy &#8211; a survey recently found that 96% of women had suffered the mutilation. And even though senior Islamic scholars have spoken out against it, there&#8217;s considerable attachment to the practice.<\/p>\n<p>When you think that it damages women, terrifies them, and probably in many cases destroys any hope of sexual pleasure, well it tells you a lot about Egyptian society &#8211; beyond even the horror of the act itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Egypt, almost four decades after Dr. Nawal al-Sadaawi first exposed to the west the horror of female genital mutilation there, really is finally getting serious about stopping the practice &#8211; that means, this story suggests, both the government and the society. But it is not going to be easy &#8211; a survey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}