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......Senegal, Togo and three other African countries have banned clitoridectomy; Spain's Basque region pays battered women a "salary...academics-and they usually are academics-who compare clitoridectomy to male circumcision or footbinding to high heels are the......

......mechanical appliances, circumcision, cautery of the genitals, clitoridectomy, and castration. As recently as 1936, a widely used pediatric...masturbatory insanity and its treatment with castration and clitoridectomy was not an innocent error. This belief-like beliefs in......

......a penis, a different set of medical experts performed a clitoridectomy on Chase and told her parents to raise her as a girl...enforced. "Labeling a child a girl does not require a clitoridectomy," she says. Elders, who has been quoted as saying......

......Bobbitt's penis with the business-as-usual reality of rape, wife abuse and, fro millions of women around the world, clitoridectomy. Indeed, while the Bobbitts were monopolizing the headlines, assorted husbands and boyfriends were committing mayhem......

......that 97 percent of Egyptian females between the ages of 15 and 49 had undergone one of four types of genital mutilation--clitoridectomy, excision, infibulations, or the miscellaneous pricking, piercing, incising, scraping, or cauterizing of the genital......

......arrogance to think that we left this sort of thing behind a long time ago; so we inveigh against the genital mutilation (clitoridectomy, infibulations) of benighted Africans in much the same way as Mrs Jellyby passionately cared for the heathen while neglecting......

......Cultures The In Depth search feature is the selling point of this title. By typing in a popular research topic, e.g., "clitoridectomy," I found information on ten specific tribes that I would have found difficult to find in a library catalog. In most......

......of 45 infibulated Somali patients the clitoris had not been removed. Conversely many infibulated women who have suffered clitoridectomy will vividly describe their own intense sexual pleasure. Yet the commonest explanation of FGC is that, though carried......

......will suffice for the job, and depending on what the job is (establishing universal health care, opposing mandatory clitoridectomy), the argumentative and moral strategies will differ from case to case. This, in a very small nutshell, is the idea......

......subject is spectacular. There are few quicker ways of being evicted from an Egyptian cafe than by talking loudly about clitoridectomy. 'Yes, it happens', a nervous student in Alexandria said. 'All of us know of the sister of a friend's friend who......

......Senegal, Togo and three other African countries have banned clitoridectomy; Spain's Basque region pays battered women a "salary...academics-and they usually are academics-who compare clitoridectomy to male circumcision or footbinding to high heels are the......

......mechanical appliances, circumcision, cautery of the genitals, clitoridectomy, and castration. As recently as 1936, a widely used pediatric...masturbatory insanity and its treatment with castration and clitoridectomy was not an innocent error. This belief-like beliefs in......

......a penis, a different set of medical experts performed a clitoridectomy on Chase and told her parents to raise her as a girl...enforced. "Labeling a child a girl does not require a clitoridectomy," she says. Elders, who has been quoted as saying......