ABSTRACT
Faith Barton: I’d like to thank both of you for joining me in this dialogue and start the discussion with the question of terminology. Maria, you’ve written in your work about the conflict surrounding the use of the term “female genital mutilation” as being part of the Western interventionist discourse, one that doesn’t necessarily reflect how the practice is viewed at the local level. Ergo, for this discussion here, what do you think would be the appropriate term to use? Female genital mutilation (FGM)? Female circumcision?
