Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy, and Change

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Circumcision as a Memeplex....Pages 1-16
The Life of the Flesh is in the Blood: The Meaning of Bloodshed in Ritual Circumcision....Pages 17-36
Zipporah and the Bridegroom of Blood: Searching for the Antecedents of Jewish Circumcision....Pages 37-47
At the Roots of Ethnic Female Genital Modification: Preliminary Report....Pages 49-55
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Ritual Labia Minora Elongation Among the Baganda Women of Uganda....Pages 57-64
Graphic Reproduction of Genital Stretching in a Group of Baganda Girls: Their Psychological Experiences....Pages 65-84
Survey on the East-African Female Students at the University of Padua....Pages 85-91
Female Genital Mutilation Among African Immigrants in Greece: The First Cognitive Study....Pages 93-102
Deinfibulation in Italy....Pages 103-115
Research Center for Preventing and Curing FGM and Its Complications....Pages 117-122
Preliminary Research Into the Psycho-Sexual Aspects of the Operation of Defibulation....Pages 123-132
Addressing Female Genital Mutilation in Germany: The Work of the Women\'s Rights Organization Terre des Femmes and the Situation in Germany....Pages 133-140
Male Circumcision in Italy....Pages 141-147
Genital Integrity and Gender Equity....Pages 149-164
Increasing Awareness of Iatrogenic Damage Consequent to Male Circumcision....Pages 165-175
A Survey of Subjective Foreskin Sensation in 600 Intact Men....Pages 177-188
Human Rights Advances in the United States....Pages 189-201
Toward Regulation of Non-Therapeutic Genital Surgeries Upon Minors: A Preliminary Legal Strategy....Pages 203-217
Strategies for Litigation....Pages 219-232
Of Waste and Want: A Nationwide Survey of Medicaid Funding for Medically Unnecessary, Non-Therapeutic Circumcision....Pages 233-246
A Campaign for the Eradication of Infibulation Within an Extended Family: Khartoum, Sudan....Pages 247-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-269