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Article: Harvard Women's Center shows documentary on female circumcision
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- March 11, 2008
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Ellen C. Bryson
University Wire
03-11-2008
(Harvard Crimson) (UWIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A documentary film screening sparked a discussion of female circumcision at the Harvard University Women's Center Monday night, with some students condemning the practice as promoting gender inequality while others argued that its cultural importance needs to be considered.
Although female circumcision is internationally condemned as a human rights violation, some argue that it has positive implications as a cultural rite of passage.
The film "Asylum," released in 2003, follows the experiences of a Ghanaian woman, Baaba Andoh, who resisted her father's attempts to force her to marry an older man and ...