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Female circumcision --- Excision (Ethnologie) --- 392.1 --- Doop. Besnijdenis. Initiatie. Meerjarigverklaring --- 392.1 Doop. Besnijdenis. Initiatie. Meerjarigverklaring

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Forced marriage --- Female circumcision --- Women --- Honor killings --- Gender mainstreaming --- Government policy --- Law and legislation --- Violence against --- Female genital mutilation

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Female "circumcision" or, more precisely, female genital cutting (FGC), remains an important cultural practice in many African countries, often serving as a coming-of-age ritual. It is also a practice that has generated international dispute and continues to be at the center of debates over women's rights, the limits of cultural pluralism, the balance of power between local cultures, international human rights, and feminist activism. In our increasingly globalized world, these practices have also begun immigrating to other nations, where transnational complexities vex debates about how to resolve the issue. Bringing together thirteen essays, Transcultural Bodies provides an ethnographically rich exploration of FGC among African diasporas in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. Contributors analyze changes in ideologies of gender and sexuality in immigrant communities, the frequent marginalization of African women's voices in debates over FGC, and controversies over legislation restricting the practice in immigrant populations.

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In the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, 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. While the opposite purposes of these clitoral surgeries (to either contain a perceived excessive sexuality or to remedy a perceived lack of sexual responsiveness) may seem paradoxical, their use reflects a consistent medical conception of the clitoris as a sexual organ. In recent years both 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 surgeries 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 what the therapeutic use of clitoridectomy and female circumcision tells us about changing (and not so changing) medical ideas concerning the female body and female sexuality. Sarah B. Rodriguez teaches at Northwestern University in the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program and in the Global Health Studies Program.

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Female circumcision --- Initiation rites --- Puberty rites --- Women --- Circoncision féminine --- Rites d'initiation --- Rites de puberté --- Femmes --- Rites and ceremonies --- Social conditions --- Rites et cérémonies --- Conditions sociales --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A76 --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Oceanië --- Circoncision féminine --- Rites de puberté --- Rites et cérémonies --- Melanesia --- Papua New Guinea --- Initiation rites - Papua New Guinea. --- Puberty rites - Papua New Guinea. --- Female circumcision - Papua New Guinea. --- Women - Papua New Guinea - Rites and ceremonies. --- Women - Papua New Guinea - Social conditions. --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Sex customs --- Initiations --- Initiatory rites --- Circumcision, Female --- Clitoridotomy --- Female genital cutting --- Female genital modification --- Female genital mutilation --- FGC (Female genital cutting) --- FGM (Female genital mutilation) --- Genital cutting, Female --- Genital mutilation, Female --- Mutilation, Female genital --- Body marking --- Clitoris --- Surgery --- Initiation rites - Papua New Guinea --- Puberty rites - Papua New Guinea --- Female circumcision - Papua New Guinea --- Women - Papua New Guinea --- Women - Papua New Guinea - Social conditions