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Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States : a history of a medical treatment /

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 enabl...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Rodriguez, Sarah B. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2014.
Collection:Rochester studies in medical history.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.