Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy, and ChangeGeorge C. Denniston, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Frederick M. Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Milos, Franco Viviani How is it that, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is still possible for males and females to be denied their inherent right to keep all the body parts with which they were born? 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. |
Contents
| 1 | |
The Life of the Flesh is in the Blood | 17 |
Zipporah and the Bridegroom of Blood | 37 |
At the Roots of Ethnic Female Genital Modification | 48 |
Pia Grassivaro Gallo Eleanora Tita Franco Viviani | 57 |
Graphic Reproduction of Genital Stretching | 65 |
Survey on the EastAfrican Female Students | 85 |
Female Genital Mutilation Among African Immigrants | 92 |
Male Circumcision in Italy | 141 |
Genital Integrity and Gender Equity149 | 148 |
Increasing Awareness of Iatrogenic Damage | 165 |
Jim Bigelow R Wayne Griffiths | 177 |
Human Rights Advances in the United States | 189 |
Toward Regulation of NonTherapeutic Genital | 202 |
Strategies for Litigation219 | 219 |
Of Waste and Want A Nationwide Survey | 233 |