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" Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States : "
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BL
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853676
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Rodriguez, Sarah B.
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Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States : : a History of a Medical Treatment.
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New York :: Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd,, 2014.
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Rochester Studies in Medical History ;; v. 29
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1 online resource (588 pages).
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1580468756
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: 9781580468756
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| Abstract
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In the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). During this same time, and continuing to today, physicians also performed female circumcision to enable women to reach orgasm. While the opposite purposes of these clitoral surgeries (to either contain a perceived excessive sexuality or to remedy a perceived lack of sexual responsiveness) may seem paradoxical, their use reflects a consistent medical conception of the clitoris as a sexual organ. In r.
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Clitoris-- Surgery-- United States.
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Female circumcision-- United States.
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Clitoris-- Surgery.
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Female circumcision.
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United States.
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618.1/6059
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RG261
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