 Her article in "American Ethnologist" called it "female genital mutilation", rather than female circumcision, and brought it to wider academic attention.Edna Adan Ismail, who worked at the time for the Somalia Ministry of Health, discussed the health consequences of FGM in 1977 with the Somali Women's Democratic Organization.Two years later Fran Hosken, an Austria-American feminist, published "The Hosken Report