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Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States : a history of a medical treatment
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ISBN: 1580468756 1580468594 158046498X 1322198772 Year: 2014 Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,

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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.

Genital cutting and transnational sisterhood : disputing U.S. polemics.
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ISBN: 0252027418 Year: 2002 Publisher: Urbana University of Illinois press


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Weibliche Genitalbeschneidung im Kontext von Migration
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ISBN: 3863882644 3863887077 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leverkusen Budrich UniPress

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Weibliche Genitalbeschneidung ist ein Phänomen, das aus verschiedenen Perspektiven betrachtet unterschiedliche Reaktionen hervorruft. Wie erleben betroffene Frauen mit somalischer Herkunft die Praktik im Kontext von Migration? Und welchen Blick haben Fachkräfte der Sozialen Arbeit und migrierte somalische Männer auf weibliche Genitalbeschneidung? Insgesamt wird deutlich, dass die Perspektive betroffener Frauen und Männer in der Sozialen Arbeit in Zukunft deutlich mehr berücksichtigt werden muss. Female circumcision is a phenomenon that causes different reactions from different perspectives. How do Somali women experience the practice in the context of migration? And what view do social workers and migrated Somali men have of female circumcision? Overall, it is clarified that the perspective of affected women and men in social work will have to be given much more future consideration. So unterschiedlich die Persönlichkeiten und Biographien der GesprächspartnerInnen, so vielfältig sind deren Aussagen. Dennoch wird klar: Nachwievor sind Hebammen und GynäkologInnen zu wenig über weibliche Genitalbeschneidung informiert und verhalten sich Betroffenen gegenüber all zu oft unangemessen, ja herablassend. Aber eine maßgebende Voraussetzung für die Akzeptanz von Aufklärungsbemühungen ist ein offener, wertschätzender Kontakt auf Augenhöhe. frauenrechte.de, 01/2016

Transcultural bodies : female genital cutting in global context
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ISBN: 1281092568 9786611092566 0813541387 9780813541389 0813540259 9780813540252 0813540267 9780813540269 9781281092564 Year: 2007 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,

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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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Cultural Expertise: An Emergent Concept and Evolving Practices
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ISBN: 3039280511 3039280503 Year: 2020 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Cultural expertise in the form of expert opinions formulated by social scientists appointed as experts in the legal process is not different from any other kind of expertise in court. In specialised fields of law, such as native land titles in America and in Australia, the appointment of social scientists as experts in court is a consolidated practice. This Special Issue focuses on the contemporary evolution and variation of cultural expertise as an emergent concept providing a conceptual umbrella for a variety of evolving practices, which all include use of the specialised knowledge of social sciences for the resolution of conflicts. It surveys the application of cultural expertise in the legal process with an unprecedented span of fields ranging from criminology and ethnopsychiatry to the recognition of the rights of autochthone minorities including linguistic expertise, and modern reformulation of cultural rights. In this Special Issue, the emphasis is on the development and change of culture-related expert witnessing over recent times, culture-related adjudication, and resolution of disputes, criminal litigation, and other kinds of court and out-of-court procedures. This Special Issue offers descriptions of judicial practices involving experts in local laws and customs and surveys of the most frequent fields of expert witnessing that are related with culture; interrogates who the experts are, their links with local communities, and also with the courts and the state power and politics; how cultural expert witnessing has been received by judges; how cultural expertise has developed across the sister disciplines of history and psychiatry; and eventually, it asks whether academic truth and legal truth are commensurable across time and space.


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Versluierde pijn : een onderzoek in Nederland naar de psychische, sociale en relationele gevolgen van meisjesbesnijdenis
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ISBN: 9789075955729 Year: 2010 Publisher: Utrecht Pharos

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Uit dit onderzoek naar de psychische, sociale en relationele gevolgen van meisjesbesnijdenis onder vrouwen uit Somalië, Soedan, Eritrea, Sierra Leone en Ethiopië blijkt dat migratie naar Nederland voor veel vrouwen ingrijpende veranderingen met zich meebrengt. Dit kunnen problemen van psychische aard zijn, maar ook problemen die het maken van contact met anderen, waaronder met hulpverleners, bemoeilijken. De vrouwen in dit onderzoek vertellen over het effect van de besnijdenis op hun beleving van seksualiteit, en over de invloed die het heeft op de relatie met hun partner, het gezinsleven en het contact met anderen. Voorts staan ze stil bij hun ervaringen met de hulpverlening in Nederland.

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