Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States
Title | Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah B. Rodriguez |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 158046498X |
In 'Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States', Sarah Rodriguez presents an engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, revealing how medical views of the female body and female sexuality have changed, and in some cases not changed, throughout the last century and a half.
Female Circumcision
Title | Female Circumcision PDF eBook |
Author | Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0812219414 |
Bolokoli, khifad, tahara, tahoor, qudiin, irua, bondo, kuruna, negekorsigin, and kene-kene are a few of the terms used in local African languages to denote a set of cultural practices collectively known as female circumcision. Practiced in many countries across Africa and Asia, this ritual is hotly debated. Supporters regard it as a central coming-of-age ritual that ensures chastity and promotes fertility. Human rights groups denounce the procedure as barbaric. It is estimated that between 100 million and 130 million girls and women today have undergone forms of this genital surgery. Female Circumcision gathers together African activists to examine the issue within its various cultural and historical contexts, the debates on circumcision regarding African refugee and immigrant populations in the United States, and the human rights efforts to eradicate the practice. This work brings African women's voices into the discussion, foregrounds indigenous processes of social and cultural change, and demonstrates the manifold linkages between respect for women's bodily integrity, the empowerment of women, and democratic modes of economic development. This volume does not focus narrowly on female circumcision as a set of ritualized surgeries sanctioned by society. Instead, the contributors explore a chain of connecting issues and processes through which the practice is being transformed in local and transnational contexts. The authors document shifts in local views to highlight processes of change and chronicle the efforts of diverse communities as agents in the process of cultural and social transformation.
Female "circumcision" in Africa
Title | Female "circumcision" in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Bettina Shell-Duncan |
Publisher | Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781555879952 |
To ban excision in Meru, Kenya, Lynn Thomas
Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?
Title | Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? PDF eBook |
Author | Shaye J. D. Cohen |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2005-09-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0520212509 |
"This book represents engaged scholarship at its very best. Cohen presents the vast range of texts at his command with brevity and wit. Elegantly written, this is a very stimulating book that is sure to provoke admiration, discussion, and controversy."—David Biale, author of Cultures of the Jews "A distinguished and wide-ranging work of scholarship. Cohen’s definitive discussion of the covenant of circumcision enhances our understanding of Jewish identity formation, women’s status in Judaism, Jewish-Christian polemic, and the impact of diverse cultural environments on the evolution of Jewish tradition."—Judith R. Baskin, author of Midrashic Women
Female Genital Mutilation
Title | Female Genital Mutilation PDF eBook |
Author | Nahid Toubia |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN |
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The Rape of Innocence
Title | The Rape of Innocence PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Robinett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2010-05-25 |
Genre | Circumcision |
ISBN | 9781878411112 |
An autobiographical account of a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant woman who discovered she had been the victim of clitoridectomy as a child in Kansas in the 1950s.
Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States
Title | Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah B. M. Webber Rodriguez |
Publisher | University of Rochester Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-05-28 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9781648250958 |
An engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, and what these tell us about American medical ideas concerning the female body and female sexuality. From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). During this same time, and continuing to today, physicians also performed female circumcision to enable women to reach orgasm. Though used as treatment, paradoxically, for both a perceived excessive sexuality and a perceived lack of sexual responsiveness, these surgeries reflect a consistent medical conception of the clitoris as a sexual organ. In recent years the popular media and academics have commented on the rising popularity in the United States of female genital cosmetic surgeries, including female circumcision, yet these discussions often assume such procedures are new. In Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States: A History of a Medical Treatment, Sarah Rodriguez presents an engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, revealing how medical views of the female body and female sexuality have changed -- and in some cases not changed -- throughout the last century and a half. Sarah B. Rodriguez is lecturer in medical humanities and bioethics and in global health studies at Northwestern University.