The swedish law against female genital mutilation (FGM) prohibits procedures that removes parts of the female genitalia and thereby makes permanent changes in the body. The problem with the wording of the law is that it may also apply to the western phenomenon cosmetic genital surgery. This paper therefore examines if cosmetic genital surgery should be covered by the swedish law against FGM, by making a critical comparing analysis. The paper begins with comparing FGM with cosmetic genital surgery to prove that there are more similarities than differences between the procedures. By using the theoretical perspectives universalism and postcolonialism, the paper then examines why, particularly in the West, there is a different approach to FGM than to cosmetic genital surgery, regardless of the similarities of the procedures.

I jämförelsen mellan förslagets samt Kyrkohandbokens nattvardsböner har flera olika typer av Gudsbilder framkommit. Undersökningsresultaten har visat på maskulina, feminina samt könsneutrala Gudsbilder. De maskulina Gudbilderna innefattar dels bilder som bygger på en maskulin metafor som Herre eller Fader och dels bilder som har grammatiskt maskulin form t ex evige. Dessa Gudsbilder är otvetydigt maskulina. Det förekommer även tvetydigt maskulina Gudsbilder d v s bilder där maskuliniteten kan diskuteras.