Rose Oldfield Hayes was an American

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at the

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. After doing

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in 1970 interviewing women who had been infibulated, Hayes wrote the first scholarly paper on

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(FGM) that used that term, and the first to incorporate information from the women themselves. Published in ''American Ethnologist'' in 1975, the paper represented an important step forward in understanding the practice.

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