Mutilated
Author: Khady
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Publisher: ASA
Edition Number:7
Year of Publication: 2008
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A denunciation of a barbaric reality committed in the name of tradition.
Every year, 2 million girls are subjected to female genital mutilation.
130 million women worldwide have already undergone these mutilations. According to the voices of tradition, female genital mutilation increases women's fertility, guarantees a young woman's purity and virginity, and a wife's fidelity... In reality, this barbaric mutilation endangers the lives of young girls who are subjected to it, deprives them of pleasure, and forever destroys their lives as women.
Khady's testimony is that of a child who, at the age of seven, lived through this nightmare and who, once a woman, became aware of the barbarity of this practice. It is the journey of a survivor who, with extraordinary courage, denounces what she had to endure, an activist who fights tirelessly to save children from the horror she herself was forced to live through.