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Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision

Culture, Controversy, and Change

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Editors:
  1. George C. Denniston

    1. University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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  2. Pia Grassivaro Gallo

    1. Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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  3. Frederick M. Hodges
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  4. Marilyn Fayre Milos

    1. National Organization of Circumcision, Information Resource Centers, San Anselmo, USA

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  5. Franco Viviani

    1. Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, Italy

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  • Provides the latest research on the topics of male and female circumcision
  • Reveals how male and female circumcision violates law and ethics
  • Exposes the harmful effects of male female genital cutting and female genital modification

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Circumcision as a Memeplex

    • Hugh Young
    Pages 1-16

  3. The Life of the Flesh is in the Blood: The Meaning of Bloodshed in Ritual Circumcision

    • Leonard B. Glick
    Pages 17-36

  4. Zipporah and the Bridegroom of Blood: Searching for the Antecedents of Jewish Circumcision

    • Nansi S. Glick
    Pages 37-47

  5. At the Roots of Ethnic Female Genital Modification: Preliminary Report

    • Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Eleanora Tita, Franco Viviani
    Pages 49-55

  6. Psycholinguistic Approaches to Ritual Labia Minora Elongation Among the Baganda Women of Uganda

    • Elisabetta Villa, Pia Grassivaro Gallo
    Pages 57-64

  7. Graphic Reproduction of Genital Stretching in a Group of Baganda Girls: Their Psychological Experiences

    • Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Elisabetta Villa, Fabiola Pagani
    Pages 65-84

  8. Survey on the East-African Female Students at the University of Padua

    • Stella Lineri, Chiara Rauhe, Pia Grassivaro Gallo
    Pages 85-91

  9. Female Genital Mutilation Among African Immigrants in Greece: The First Cognitive Study

    • Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Anna Iordanidou, Franco Viviani
    Pages 93-102

  10. Deinfibulation in Italy

    • Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Lara Franco, Lisa Rivaroli
    Pages 103-115

  11. Research Center for Preventing and Curing FGM and Its Complications

    • Abdulcadir Omar Hussen
    Pages 117-122

  12. Preliminary Research Into the Psycho-Sexual Aspects of the Operation of Defibulation

    • Saulo Sirigatti, Lucrezia Catania, Sara Simone, Silvia Casale, Abdulcadir Omar Hussen
    Pages 123-132

  13. Addressing Female Genital Mutilation in Germany: The Work of the Women's Rights Organization Terre des Femmes and the Situation in Germany

    • Petra Schnuell, Gritt Richter, Claudia Piccolantonio
    Pages 133-140

  14. Male Circumcision in Italy

    • Franco Viviani, Gian Luca Costardi, Lisa Capparotto, Pia Grassivaro Gallo
    Pages 141-147

  15. Genital Integrity and Gender Equity

    • J. Steven Svoboda
    Pages 149-164

  16. Increasing Awareness of Iatrogenic Damage Consequent to Male Circumcision

    • Jim Bigelow, R. Wayne Griffiths
    Pages 165-175

  17. A Survey of Subjective Foreskin Sensation in 600 Intact Men

    • Peter J. Ball
    Pages 177-188

  18. Human Rights Advances in the United States

    • George C. Denniston
    Pages 189-201

  19. Toward Regulation of Non-Therapeutic Genital Surgeries Upon Minors: A Preliminary Legal Strategy

    • John V. Geisheker
    Pages 203-217

  20. Strategies for Litigation

    • David J. Llewellyn
    Pages 219-232
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    George C. Denniston

  • Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Pia Grassivaro Gallo

  • National Organization of Circumcision, Information Resource Centers, San Anselmo, USA

    Marilyn Fayre Milos

  • Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, Italy

    Franco Viviani

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision

  • Book Subtitle: Culture, Controversy, and Change

  • Editors: George C. Denniston, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Frederick M. Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Milos, Franco Viviani

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4916-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4915-6Published: 06 September 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7225-2Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4916-3Published: 14 September 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 270

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Medical Law, Public Health, Personality and Social Psychology

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