Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision

Book Data

Title	Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision
Subtitle	Culture, Controversy, and Change
Author	Denniston / Grassivaro Gallo / Hodges / Milos / Viviani
Pages	270
Format	16x24 cm
Edition	1
First Edition	2006
Publisher	Springer
ISBN	9789048172252

Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision is a book by George C. Denniston, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Frederick M. Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Milos, and Franco Viviani.

Description

Every year 13.3 millions boys and 2 million girls are subjected to circumcision, the involuntary removal of part or all of their external sex organs.

Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision 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.

Table of contents

• Circumcision as a Memeplex

Hugh Young, Pages 1-16

• The Life of the Flesh is in the Blood: The Meaning of Bloodshed in Ritual Circumcision

Leonard B. Glick, Pages 17-36

• Zipporah and the Bridegroom of Blood: Searching for the Antecedents of Jewish Circumcision

Nansi S. Glick, Pages 37-47

• At the Roots of Ethnic Female Genital Modification: Preliminary Report

Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Eleanora Tita, Franco Viviani, Pages 49-55

• Psycholinguistic Approaches to Ritual Labia Minora Elongation Among the Baganda Women of Uganda

Elisabetta Villa, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Pages 57-64

• Graphic Reproduction of Genital Stretching in a Group of Baganda Girls: Their Psychological Experiences

Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Elisabetta Villa, Fabiola Pagani, Pages 65-84

• Survey on the East-African Female Students at the University of Padua

Stella Lineri, Chiara Rauhe, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Pages 85-91

• Female Genital Mutilation Among African Immigrants in Greece: The First Cognitive Study

Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Anna Iordanidou, Franco Viviani, Pages 93-102

• Deinfibulation in Italy

Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Lara Franco, Lisa Rivaroli, Pages 103-115

• Research Center for Preventing and Curing FGM and Its Complications

Abdulcadir Omar Hussen, Pages 117-122

• Preliminary Research Into the Psycho-Sexual Aspects of the Operation of Defibulation

Saulo Sirigatti, Lucrezia Catania, Sara Simone, Silvia Casale, Abdulcadir Omar Hussen, Pages 123-132

• Addressing Female Genital Mutilation in Germany: The Work of the Women's Rights Organization Terre des Femmes and the Situation in Germany

Petra Schnuell, Gritt Richter, Claudia Piccolantonio, Pages 133-140

• Male Circumcision in Italy

Franco Viviani, Gian Luca Costardi, Lisa Capparotto, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Pages 141-147

• Genital Integrity and Gender Equity

J. Steven Svoboda, Pages 149-164

• Increasing Awareness of Iatrogenic Damage Consequent to Male Circumcision

Jim Bigelow, R. Wayne Griffiths, Pages 165-17

• A Survey of Subjective Foreskin Sensation in 600 Intact Men

Peter J. Ball, Pages 177-188

• Human Rights Advances in the United States

George C. Denniston, Pages 189-201

• Toward Regulation of Non-Therapeutic Genital Surgeries Upon Minors: A Preliminary Legal Strategy

John V. Geisheker, Pages 203-217

• Strategies for Litigation

David J. Llewellyn, Pages 219-232

• Of Waste and Want: A Nationwide Survey of Medicaid Funding for Medically Unnecessary, Non-Therapeutic Circumcision

Amber Craig, Dan Bollinger, Pages 233-246

• A Campaign for the Eradication of Infibulation Within an Extended Family: Khartoum, Sudan

Nagla Dawelbait, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Marianna Pappalardo, Pages 247-260

External links

• Springer product page