ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to apply the theoretical perspective of one's voice to female genital cutting (FGC) and objectification in sex work. It focuses on statutes and case law but also on the living experience of people from the point of view of one's voice; that is, from a non-separated and non-cut perspective, a voice that comes from within oneself in relationality with one's vulnerability and that of others. The chapter argues that one's voice can resist the reasonable consent, the intactivism of the principle of integrity of the body deployed in law to stop FGC as well as law's mono-valent thinking. It also argues that in cases where consent to the cut is allowed the integrity of the body in law is construed differently from cases where body cuts are ascribed to patriarchal discourses of gender subordination and are thus ruled to be a priori unlawful, such as in the case of FGC.
