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Sexual mutilations : a human tragedy

Title

Sexual mutilations : a human tragedy / edited by George C. Denniston and Marilyn Fayre Milos.

Format

Book

Published

New York : Plenum Press, c1997.

Description

xiv, 237 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Other contributors

Denniston, George C. Milos, Marilyn Fayre. International Symposium on Sexual Mutiliations (4th : 1996 : Lausanne, Switzerland)

Notes

"Proceedings of the fourth International Symposium on Sexual Mutilations, held August 9-11, 1996, in Lausanne, Switzerland"--T.p. verso. Appendices include: 1. Declaration of genital integrity; 2. Resources. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The geography of male and female genital mutilations / J. DeMeo
• A short history of the institutionalization of involuntary sexual mutilation in the United States / F. Hodges
• Jehovah, his cousin Allah, and sexual mutilations / S.A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh
• The skoptzy: the Russian sect of the castrated / D. Diers and X. Valla
• Functional and erotic consequences of sexual mutilations / G. Zwang

• The human prepuce / M.M. Lander
• NORM UK and the medical case against circumcision: a British perspective / J.P. Warren
• Circumcision: an iatrogenic epidemic / G.C. Denniston
• Why does neonatal circumcision persist in the United States / R.S. Van Howe
• Learned helplessness: a concept of the future / M. Odent
• Long-term consequences of neonatal circumcision: a preliminary poll of circumcised males / T. Hammond
• Similarities in attitudes and misconceptions about male and female sexual mutilations / H. Lightfoot-Klein

• Female genital mutilation / B. Ras-Work
• Epidemiological surveys on female genital mutilation in Italy / P. Grassivaro Gallo ... [et al.]
• Female genital mutilation in Germany: an update from (I)NTACT / C. Müller
• Redefining the sacred / M. Pollack
• Challenging circumcision: a Jewish perspective / J. Goodman
• The wound reveals the cure: a Utah model for ending the cycle of sexual mutilation / J. Parvati Baker
• Nurses for the rights of the child: an update / M. Conant and B. Katz Sperlich
• NOCIRC of Australia / G. Williams
• Circumcision: are baby boys entitled to the same protection as baby girls regarding genital mutilation / Z. Baer
• Routine infant male circumcision: examining the human rights and constitutional issues / J.S. Svoboda
• The Ashley Montagu resolution to end the genital mutilation of children worldwide: a petition to the world court, the Hague / J.W. Prescott.

Kinsey subjects

Genital ritual mutilations. Circumcision. Sex conferences.

ISBN

0306455897