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Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States : a history of a medical treatment
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- Creator
- Sarah B. Rodriguez
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2014
- Physical Details
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- xi, 280 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781580468756, 1580468756, 158046498X, 9781580468596, 9781580464987, 1322198772, 1580468594, 9781322198774
- OCLC
- ocn870843696, ocn893656554, ocn892799999
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Women, masturbation, and clitoral surgery, 1862-1945 -- Children, masturbation, and clitoral surgery since 1890 -- Female sexual degeneracy and the enlarged clitoris, 1850-1941 -- Female circumcision to promote clitoral orgasm, 1890-1945 -- Female circumcision as sexual enhancement therapy during the era of the vaginal orgasm, 1940-66 -- Female circumcision and the divisive issue of female clitoral sexual pleasure go public, 1966-81 -- James Burt and the surgery of love, 1966-89
Subjects
- Clitoris -- Surgery -- United States.
- Female genital mutilation -- United States.
- Circumcision, Female -- history -- United States.
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- Clitoris -- surgery -- United States.
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- History, 19th Century -- United States.
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- History, 20th Century -- United States.
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- Sexual Behavior -- United States.
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- Sexuality -- history -- United States.
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