Sexual mutilations : a human tragedy
The contributors to this volume, an international panel of experts in the fields of medicine, law, ethics, sociology, anthropology, history, religion, and politics, exhaustively document and dissect this largely soft-pedaled and insidious violation of human rights. In 23 chapters they present the history of sexual mutilation; discuss its consequences to the victim, both physical and psychological; analyze its role in tradition; reveal the medical industry's investment in the practice; describe current legislative efforts, including the Ashley Montagu Resolution to End the Genital Mutilation of Children Worldwide; and outline effective, culturally sensitive methods being implemented today to safeguard the human rights of at-risk children
Conference proceedings
xiv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780306455896, 0306455897
36543411
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, F. Viviani, M. Livio, R. Corsaro, F. De Cordova, G. Fortunato, S. Beccacini, and S. Salad Hassan
Female genital mutilation in Germany : an update from (I)NTACT / C. Müller
Redefing 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 entitles 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
"Proceedings of the fourth International Symposium on Sexual Mutilations, held August 9-11, 1996, in Lausanne, Switzerland"--Title page verso