braces?

Read, Dwight ANTHRO (Read@ANTHRO.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU)
Tue, 10 May 1994 18:26:00 PDT

OKeefe writes:

" Infibulation is a means of controlling a resource, namely
sexual access to women, ..."

Is this assertion the consequence of research that demonstrates infibulation
(universally?) constitutes a means to control "sexual access to women", or a
western valuation placed on what it is thought that infibulation entails?

D. Read
READ@ANTHRO.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU