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Agnes Pareyio
Agnes Pareyio (born June 24, 1956) is a Maasai Kenya women's rights activist, politician and founder and director of the Tasaru Ntomonok Rescue Center for Girls, an organization that campaigns against female genital cutting.
Biography.
Pareyio was born in 1956, the daughter of the village chief. After she underwent female genital mutilation at 14, against her will, she vowed to prevent FGM from happening to other girls.
Soon after her marriage at 18, Pareyio joined the Kenyan women's organization
Burstyn's view that "Cries and Whispers" depicts the suppression of women, but it does not endorse the suppression and the film opposes patriarchy. Rueschmann traced the emotional estrangement to the women's mother, who reacts to the era's gender roles with "boredom, anger and frustration". According to Rueschmann, her daughters assume (or reject) her position and harm themselves in the process. Agnes' confinement to bed may reflect gender roles and expectations for women about sex, childbirth and death. Author Birgitta Steene disputed