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Genital Autonomy:

Protecting Personal Choice

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Editors:
  1. George C. Denniston

    1. Norland, USA

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  2. Frederick M. Hodges

    1. University of Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

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  3. Marilyn Fayre Milos

    1. San Anselmo, USA

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

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. “Three-Fourths Were Abnormal”—Misha’s Case, Sick Societies, and the Law

    • J. Steven Svoboda
    Pages 1-13

  3. Older Minors and Circumcision: Questioning the Limits of Religious Actions

    • Marie Fox, Michael Thomson
    Pages 15-38

  4. These Goalposts Don’t Move: Non-Medical Circumcision of Boys in the Tasmanian and Australian Context

    • Paul Mason
    Pages 39-47

  5. Mass Campaigns of Male Circumcision for HIV Control in Africa: Clinical Efficacy, Population Effectiveness, Political Issues

    • Michel Garenne
    Pages 49-59

  6. AIDS XVII, Mexico City: Reason for Hope or Panic?

    • John Geisheker
    Pages 61-66

  7. Circumcision Psychopathology

    • George C. Denniston
    Pages 67-73

  8. Physical Effects of Circumcision

    • John Warren
    Pages 75-79

  9. Complications of Circumcision: A Urologist’s Viewpoint

    • James L. Snyder
    Pages 81-84

  10. NOCIRC of Italy: Scientific Activities 2006–2009

    • Franco Viviani, S. Bobbo, S. Malaguti, D. Paolini
    Pages 85-94

  11. A Project About Male Circumcision in the Veneto

    • M. Gloria de Bernardo
    Pages 95-96

  12. The First Survey on Genital Stretching in Italy

    • Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Annalisa Bertoletti, Ilenia Zanotti, Lucrezia Catania
    Pages 97-101

  13. Knowledge and Opinions of North Italian Health Operators About Female Genital Mutilation

    • Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Ilenia Zanotti, Annalisa Bertoletti, Lucrezia Catania, Miriam Manganoni
    Pages 103-110

  14. Stretching of the Labia Minora and Other Expansive Interventions of Female Genitals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

    • Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Nancy Tshiala Mbuyi, Annalisa Bertoletti
    Pages 111-124

  15. Preventing Infibulation: Mana Sultan Abdurahman Isse at Merka, Somalia

    • Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Sandra Busatta
    Pages 125-135

  16. Writing Rites Gone Wrong: Autobiography, Testimonials, and Their Relevance to the Debate Around Genital Alterations

    • Chantal Zabus
    Pages 137-148

  17. The Impact of Neonatal Circumcision: Implications for Doctors of Men’s Experiences in Regressive Therapy

    • Robert Clover Johnson
    Pages 149-165

  18. Circumcision Memory

    • Thomas W. Hennen
    Pages 167-187

  19. Foreskin Restoration 1980–2008

    • R. Wayne Griffiths, J. David Bigelow, James Loewen
    Pages 189-198

  20. Restoration: The Foreskin and the American Dream

    • Ron Low
    Pages 199-210
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Circumcision affects 15.3 million children and young adults annually. In terms of gender, 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls are subjected to the involuntary removal of part or all of their external sexual organs every year. The problem of female circumcision has been addressed on an international level, but male circumcision remains a controversial subject that many academics have been reluctant to examine. Circumcision is tolerated today because it has been practiced for millennia by a small but vocal minority of religious and ethnic groups, however, when the practice is examined through the lens of modern legal, ethical, and human rights advancements, no place remains in civilized society for this body-altering ritual. In Genital Autonomy: Protecting Personal Choice, international experts address various types of genital modifications, the impact of these harmful traditional practices on the child, on human rights, and on the development of the concept of bodily integrity. The papers presented in this volume address these topics from a variety of angles. They question and dissects the true motivations of the doctors, witch doctors, and “holy men” who promote and profit from circumcision.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Norland, USA

    George C. Denniston

  • University of Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

    Frederick M. Hodges

  • San Anselmo, USA

    Marilyn Fayre Milos

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