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Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States : a history of a medical treatment / Sarah B. Rodriguez.

By: Series: Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2014Description: xi, 280 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781580464987 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 618.1/6059 23
LOC classification:
  • RG261 .R63 2014
NLM classification:
  • WP 11 AA1
Contents:
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.
Item type: BOOKS
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index.

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.

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