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The Harmful Traditional Practice Of Breast Ironing In Cameroon, Africa., Rachel Pearsell Apr 2017

The Harmful Traditional Practice Of Breast Ironing In Cameroon, Africa., Rachel Pearsell

Bridges: An Undergraduate Journal of Contemporary Connections

This article will examine the harmful traditional practice of breast ironing, a common occurrence in Cameroon. Breast ironing affects approximately one in every four adolescent girls in Cameroon and is typically performed by the mother of the child who will heat common household items such as pestles or grinding stones and massage the breast tissue, hoping to flatten the breast or reverse the growth. This practice causes irreversible physical and psychological trauma to young girls and is performed in hopes to deter men from making sexual advances onto young girls. This article also examines legislation around the practice, both locally …


Echo Soundings: Essays On Poetry And Poetics By Jeffery Donaldson, Tonia L. Payne Aug 2016

Echo Soundings: Essays On Poetry And Poetics By Jeffery Donaldson, Tonia L. Payne

The Goose

Review of Jeffery Donaldson's Echo Soundings: Essays on Poetry and Poetics.


Stone: An Ecology Of The Inhuman By Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Joel Weishaus Aug 2016

Stone: An Ecology Of The Inhuman By Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Joel Weishaus

The Goose

Review of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman


Second Growth By Fabienne Calvert Filteau, Josephine M. Massarella Feb 2016

Second Growth By Fabienne Calvert Filteau, Josephine M. Massarella

The Goose

Review of Second Growth by Fabienne Calvert Filteau.


A Localized Approach To The Origins Of Pottery In Upper Mesopotamia, Elizabeth Gibbon Nov 2015

A Localized Approach To The Origins Of Pottery In Upper Mesopotamia, Elizabeth Gibbon

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

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Human Dependence On Nature: How To Help Solve The Environmental Crisis By Haydn Washington, Lorelei Hanson Aug 2014

Human Dependence On Nature: How To Help Solve The Environmental Crisis By Haydn Washington, Lorelei Hanson

The Goose

Review of Human Dependence on Nature: How to Help Solve the Environmental Crisis by Haydn Washington.


Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers And The Politics Of Genetically Modified Wheat By Emily Eaton, Aubrey R. Streit Krug Aug 2014

Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers And The Politics Of Genetically Modified Wheat By Emily Eaton, Aubrey R. Streit Krug

The Goose

Review of Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat by Emily Eaton.