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

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.

Bodily integrity and the politics of circumcision : culture, controversy and change
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ISBN: 1280619597 9786610619597 1402049161 1402049153 904817225X Year: 2006 Publisher: New York : Springer,

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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 persist or how modern societies can tolerate this inherent violation of human rights. The problem of female circumcision is being addressed on an international level, while male circumcision remains a subject many academics are reluctant to fully or impartially examine. This book explores the problem of male and female circumcision in modern society from religious, anthropological, psychological, medical, legal, and ethical perspectives. Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy, and Change illuminates the vulnerability of human society to medical, economic, and historical pressures. It provides a much-needed, thoughtful, and detailed analysis of the devastating impact of circumcision on bodily integrity and human rights, and it provides hope for change.

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Circumcision. --- Female circumcision. --- Infibulation. --- Human rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Labiorrhapy --- Female circumcision --- Vulva --- 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 --- Initiation rites --- Amputation, Foreskin --- Foreskin amputation --- Foreskin removal --- Male circumcision --- Prepucectomy --- Removal of foreskin --- Foreskin --- Law and legislation --- Surgery --- Medical ethics. --- Public health laws. --- Consciousness. --- Theory of Medicine/Bioethics. --- Medical Law. --- Public Health. --- Personality and Social Psychology. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Spirit --- Self --- Communicable diseases --- Public health --- Medical laws and legislation --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Medical laws and legislation. --- Public health. --- Personality. --- Social psychology. --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Law, Medical --- Medical personnel --- Medical registration and examination --- Physicians --- Surgeons --- Medical policy --- Medical jurisprudence --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Individuality --- Persons --- Temperament --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Circumcision, Female. --- Circumcision, Male --- Human Rights --- Circumcision, Male. --- Female genital mutilation. --- Human Rights.


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Genital cutting : protecting children from medical, cultural, and religious infringements
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ISBN: 9400792751 9400764065 9400764073 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Springer,

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Every year, across the globe, an estimated 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls are involuntarily subjected to genital cutting. Both male and female genital cutting persist, generating a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry that is defended by its proponents with dubious studies, manipulated statistics, and an appeal to “custom.” Physicians and parents alike have been misled into believing that these mutilations are beneficial, necessary, and harmless. Today, flawed studies have allowed the promotion of circumcision as a way of combating HIV/AIDS in Africa, an experiment that failed in the USA, where a half-million circumcised males have succumbed to AIDS. These facts notwithstanding, the public and legal outcry against these abuses is increasing. For instance, the high court in Cologne, Germany ruled in 2012 that circumcision harms the child, that the harm is irreversible, that it denies the child the right to his own body, and that circumcision denies the individual the right to choose his own religion. Thus, the issue of circumcision has expanded beyond the arena of medicine and is firmly established as a human rights and legal problem. The contributors to this volume, an international panel of experts in the fields of medicine, law, ethics, anthropology, sociology, history, religion, and politics, thoroughly examine and elucidate this violation of human rights.

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Circumcision. --- Infibulation. --- Gynecologic Surgical Procedures --- Social Welfare --- Culture --- Body Modification, Non-Therapeutic --- Urologic Surgical Procedures, Male --- Human Rights --- Surgical Procedures, Operative --- Urogenital Surgical Procedures --- Urologic Surgical Procedures --- Social Control, Formal --- Cosmetic Techniques --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Sociology --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Therapeutics --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Health Care --- Circumcision, Male --- Circumcision, Female --- Child Advocacy --- Child Welfare --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Pediatrics --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Amputation, Foreskin --- Foreskin amputation --- Foreskin removal --- Male circumcision --- Prepucectomy --- Removal of foreskin --- Labiorrhapy --- Medicine. --- Ethics. --- Pediatrics. --- Pediatric surgery. --- Anthropology. --- Sociology. --- Psychology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Pediatric Surgery. --- Sociology, general. --- Psychology, general. --- Body marking --- Foreskin --- Initiation rites --- Female circumcision --- Vulva --- Surgery --- Surgery. --- Philosophy (General). --- Surgery, Primitive --- Human beings --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Paediatrics --- Pediatric medicine --- Children --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Soul --- Mental health --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Pediatric surgery --- Surgery, Pediatric --- Treatment --- Primitive societies

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