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Internalizing Knowledge and Changing Attitudes to Female Genital CuttingMutilation
Joint Authors
Schultz, Jon-Håkon
Lien, Inger-Lise
Source
Obstetrics and Gynecology International
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-06-12
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The process of paradigmatic attitudinal change has been analyzed by the use of multimethods and multileveled internalization theories.
Forty-six informants (a network of activists and a group of Gambian women) have described their change of attitude to female genital cutting.
This study shows that internalizing a packet of information as adults, that contradicts an old schema of knowledge internalized as children, can be experienced as epistemologically very painful.
Activists in Norway who have changed their attitude to FGC have got information from different educational institutions, from seminars and conferences, from work as interpreters in hospitals, and from discussions among families and friends.
Information can be received, listened to and subsequently discarded.
In order to design FGC-abandonment campaigns, the importance of the internalization process in order for the individual to make an attitudinal change must be understood.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Lien, Inger-Lise& Schultz, Jon-Håkon. 2013. Internalizing Knowledge and Changing Attitudes to Female Genital CuttingMutilation. Obstetrics and Gynecology International،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-473778
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Lien, Inger-Lise& Schultz, Jon-Håkon. Internalizing Knowledge and Changing Attitudes to Female Genital CuttingMutilation. Obstetrics and Gynecology International No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-473778
American Medical Association (AMA)
Lien, Inger-Lise& Schultz, Jon-Håkon. Internalizing Knowledge and Changing Attitudes to Female Genital CuttingMutilation. Obstetrics and Gynecology International. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-473778
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-473778