I'm a student at a small college and am doing a thesis on the cultural exceptance of body mutilation for my anthropology major. I was hoping you could give me some information and pictures of female circumcision. It would really be helpful. Thank you.

Thanks for your note. For pictures of Female Genital Mutilation, you should pick up a copy of Alice Walker's book Warrior Marks. The appendix has diagrams.

For more information you might want to contact some of the groups featured in the FGM section of our Violence Against Women links.

—Amy