Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision Culture, Controversy, and Change
Circumcision is a cultural phenomenon that affects 15.3 million children and young adults annually. In terms of gender, 13.3 millions boys and 2 million girls are subjected to the involuntary removal of part or all of their external sex organs every year. Few people, however, ask why such practices...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2006, 2006
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2006 |
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Table of Contents:
- Circumcision as a Memeplex
- The Life of the Flesh is in the Blood: The Meaning of Bloodshed in Ritual Circumcision
- Zipporah and the Bridegroom of Blood: Searching for the Antecedents of Jewish Circumcision
- At the Roots of Ethnic Female Genital Modification: Preliminary Report
- Psycholinguistic Approaches to Ritual Labia Minora Elongation Among the Baganda Women of Uganda
- Graphic Reproduction of Genital Stretching in a Group of Baganda Girls: Their Psychological Experiences
- Survey on the East-African Female Students at the University of Padua
- Female Genital Mutilation Among African Immigrants in Greece: The First Cognitive Study
- Deinfibulation in Italy
- Research Center for Preventing and Curing FGM and Its Complications
- Preliminary Research Into the Psycho-Sexual Aspects of the Operation of Defibulation
- Addressing Female Genital Mutilation in Germany: The Work of the Women's Rights Organization Terre des Femmes and the Situation in Germany
- Male Circumcision in Italy
- Genital Integrity and Gender Equity
- Increasing Awareness of Iatrogenic Damage Consequent to Male Circumcision
- A Survey of Subjective Foreskin Sensation in 600 Intact Men
- Human Rights Advances in the United States
- Toward Regulation of Non-Therapeutic Genital Surgeries Upon Minors: A Preliminary Legal Strategy
- Strategies for Litigation
- Of Waste and Want: A Nationwide Survey of Medicaid Funding for Medically Unnecessary, Non-Therapeutic Circumcision
- A Campaign for the Eradication of Infibulation Within an Extended Family: Khartoum, Sudan