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[[Intactivist]] '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MA}}, has been an independent researcher into the enigma of the [[genital mutilation]] of non-consenting children worldwide for three decades.


This person is mentioned on [[IntactWiki]] for being an intactivist. No other information is mentioned there.
A former high school English teacher and lone, unfunded, self-motivated backpacker, she pioneered the in-depth study of the widespread practice of Female Genital Mutilation ([[FGM]]) in Africa over a period of years. She gained access into medical facilities, lived with African families of all social levels, in cities, towns, villages and desert settlements and interviewed over 400 people in all walks of life in regard to the psychological, sociological, historical, sexological, marital, medical, religious and legal aspects of FGM.


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An avid writer, Lightfoot-Klein has published a large number of articles in a variety of scientific and humanist journals on the topic of harmful, unnecessary [[genital mutilation]] of non-consenting children in the [[United States]] and abroad.
 
Ms. Lightfoot-Klein holds an MA in social psychology from the {{UNI|American University|AU}} in Washington, {{USSC|DC}}. Providing expert witness services for asylum, abuse, and other legal actions involving FGM, she is available for written depositions as well as personal testimony in Immigration Court.
 
For the past three decades, Lightfoot-Klein has been speaking out against [[FGM|Female Genital Mutilation]], violently perpetrated on well over a hundred million women in 28 African and Arab counties.
 
Her ground breaking, in-depth study of this subject, conducted over a 6-year period in sub-Saharan Africa, shed light on these secret rituals, which had until then remained hidden from the Western world. Her empathic understanding of the issues involved in their continuation versus their eventual, hoped for abandonment, remains to this day unsurpassed.
 
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====Journal articles====
* {{REFjournal
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|title=Pharaonic circumcision of females in the Sudan
|journal=Med Law
|date=1983
|volume=2
|issue=4
|pages=353-60
|url=
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=6687087
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|accessdate=2026-02-20
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* {{REFjournal
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|author-link=Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
|last2=Shaw
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|etal=no
|title=Special needs of ritually circumcised women patients
|journal= J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs
|date=1991-02
|volume=20
|issue=2
|pages=102-7
|url=https://www.jognn.org/article/S0884-2175(15)32909-9/abstract
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=2030446
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|DOI=10.1111/j.1552-6909.1991.tb01681.x
|accessdate=2026-02-20
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* {{REFjournal
|last=Lightfoot-Klein
|first=
|init=H
|author-link=Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
|etal=no
|title=Disability in female immigrants with ritually inflicted genital mutilation
|journal=Women Ther
|date=1993
|volume=14
|issue=3-4
|pages=187-94
|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12288384/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=12288384
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1300/J015v14n01_16
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====Books====
* {{REFbook
|last=Lightfoot-Klein
|first=Hanny
|init=H
|author-link=Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
|title=Prisoners of Ritual: An Odyssey into Female Genital Circumcision in Africa
|url=https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Prisoners%20of%20Ritual%3A%20An%20Odyssey%20into%20Female%20Genital%20Circumcision%20in%20Africa.&i=stripbooks
|year=1989
|publisher=Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
|ISBN=978-0918393685
}}
* {{REFbook
|last=Lightfoot-Klein
|first=Hanny
|init=H
|author-link=Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
|last2=Cole
|first2=Ellen
|init2=E
|last3=Rothblum
|first3=Ester D.
|init3=ED
|title=A Woman's Odyssey Into Africa: Tracks Across a Life
|url=https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A%20Woman%27s%20Odyssey%20Into%20Africa%3A%20Tracks%20Across%20a%20Life&i=stripbooks
|year=1992
|publisher=Taylor & Francis Inc
|ISBN=978-1560230076
}}
* {{REFbook
|last=Lightfoot-Klein
|first=Hanny
|init=H
|author-link=Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
|title=Secret Wounds
|url=https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Wounds-Haworth-Women-Lightfoot-Klein/dp/140339699X?s=books
|year=2003
|location=Bloomington
|publisher=AuthorHouse
|ISBN=978-1403396990
}}
* {{REFbook
|last=Lightfoot-Klein
|first=Hanny
|init=
|author-link=Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
|title=Children's Genitals Under the Knife: Social Imperatives, Secrecy and Shame
|url=https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Wounds-Haworth-Women-Lightfoot-Klein/dp/140339699X?s=books
|year=2005
|publisher=[[KDP]]
|ISBN=978-1419625404
}}
==Video==
===Ending Circumcision - An Extraordinary Woman===
<youtube>v=fes68eyaQCs</youtube>
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Female genital mutilation]]
* [[MGM]]
* [[Intactivism]]
* [[United States of America]]
 
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Hanny Lightfoot-Klein

Intactivist Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, M.A.[a 1], has been an independent researcher into the enigma of the genital mutilation of non-consenting children worldwide for three decades.

A former high school English teacher and lone, unfunded, self-motivated backpacker, she pioneered the in-depth study of the widespread practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Africa over a period of years. She gained access into medical facilities, lived with African families of all social levels, in cities, towns, villages and desert settlements and interviewed over 400 people in all walks of life in regard to the psychological, sociological, historical, sexological, marital, medical, religious and legal aspects of FGM.

An avid writer, Lightfoot-Klein has published a large number of articles in a variety of scientific and humanist journals on the topic of harmful, unnecessary genital mutilation of non-consenting children in the United States and abroad.

Ms. Lightfoot-Klein holds an MA in social psychology from the American University in Washington, DC. Providing expert witness services for asylum, abuse, and other legal actions involving FGM, she is available for written depositions as well as personal testimony in Immigration Court.

For the past three decades, Lightfoot-Klein has been speaking out against Female Genital Mutilation, violently perpetrated on well over a hundred million women in 28 African and Arab counties.

Her ground breaking, in-depth study of this subject, conducted over a 6-year period in sub-Saharan Africa, shed light on these secret rituals, which had until then remained hidden from the Western world. Her empathic understanding of the issues involved in their continuation versus their eventual, hoped for abandonment, remains to this day unsurpassed.

Publications

Journal articles

Books

Video

Ending Circumcision - An Extraordinary Woman

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  1. ↑ REFweb Master of Arts, Wikipedia. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
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