Rose Oldfield Hayes

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Rose Oldfield Hayes (born 1936) was an American anthropologist at the State University of New York, Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo). After doing fieldwork in Sudan in 1970 interviewing women who had been infibulated, Hayes wrote the first scholarly paper on female genital mutilation (FGM) that used that term, and the first to incorporate information from the women themselves. Published in American Ethnologist in 1975, [1] the paper represented an important step forward in understanding the practice. [2]

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Biography

Hayes was born in the United States in 1936 and studied at SUNY Buffalo. In 1975, she was researching the Shinnecock Reservation. [3] : 791 

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ Hayes, Rose Oldfield (17 June 1975). "Female Genital Mutilation, Fertility Control, Women's Roles, and the Patrilineage in Modern Sudan: A Functional Analysis". American Ethnologist. 2 (4): 617–633. doi: 10.1525/ae.1975.2.4.02a00030 . JSTOR   643328.
  2. ↑ Gruenbaum, Ellen (2001). The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 21.
  3. ↑ Nettleship, Martin A.; Dalegivens, R.; Nettleship, Anderson, eds. (1975). War, Its Causes and Correlates. Mouton. ISBN   978-90-279-7659-8.


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