This book should not only be read (and taught) by medical historians and historians of gender and sexuality, but--with the recent surge of genital plastic surgery--one would wish for a copy of Female Circumcision in the waiting rooms of America''s plastic surgeons. BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy throws a flood of light on a dark and neglected corner of American medical practice, described by one retired gynaecologist as "a lucrative industry" and a "thriving business few people spoke about afterwards." It is to her great credit that Rodriguez has broken this silence, and her book will be required reading for anybody interested in the issues it covers. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY Rodriguez convincingly presents clitoral surgeries as normalized practices in US medical history, and the clitoris as a site of cultural and medical contestation throughout this 150-year period. The book brings valuable new perspectives to medical history in capturing the complex interaction between medicine and culture in the control of women''s bodies and sexuality. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE I recommend Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States to readers who want to know more about clitoral surgeries in the American context. The book would also make an excellent teaching tool; it would fit well on syllabi for women''s history, the history of medicine, or the history of sex. NURSING CLIO Rodriguez convincingly argues that the history of clitoral surgery reveals medicine''s approach to female sexuality.
She seeks to counter narratives of medical "misogyny" with a more nuanced story that situates the practice . in historical context. JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY Rodriguez vividly and persuasively places the clitoris at the center of a centuries-long medical debate about what''s wrong with the female body, and how it can be surgically adapted to androcentric sexual norms. Required reading if you think the barbaric days of genital cutting are in the American past. --Rachel Maines, author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women''s Sexual Satisfaction e complex interaction between medicine and culture in the control of women''s bodies and sexuality. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE I recommend Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States to readers who want to know more about clitoral surgeries in the American context. The book would also make an excellent teaching tool; it would fit well on syllabi for women''s history, the history of medicine, or the history of sex. NURSING CLIO Rodriguez convincingly argues that the history of clitoral surgery reveals medicine''s approach to female sexuality.
She seeks to counter narratives of medical "misogyny" with a more nuanced story that situates the practice . in historical context. JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY Rodriguez vividly and persuasively places the clitoris at the center of a centuries-long medical debate about what''s wrong with the female body, and how it can be surgically adapted to androcentric sexual norms. Required reading if you think the barbaric days of genital cutting are in the American past. --Rachel Maines, author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women''s Sexual Satisfaction ys of genital cutting are in the American past. --Rachel Maines, author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women''s Sexual Satisfaction e complex interaction between medicine and culture in the control of women''s bodies and sexuality. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE I recommend Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States to readers who want to know more about clitoral surgeries in the American context. The book would also make an excellent teaching tool; it would fit well on syllabi for women''s history, the history of medicine, or the history of sex.
NURSING CLIO Rodriguez convincingly argues that the history of clitoral surgery reveals medicine''s approach to female sexuality. She seeks to counter narratives of medical "misogyny" with a more nuanced story that situates the practice . in historical context. JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY Rodriguez vividly and persuasively places the clitoris at the center of a centuries-long medical debate about what''s wrong with the female body, and how it can be surgically adapted to androcentric sexual norms. Required reading if you think the barbaric days of genital cutting are in the American past. --Rachel Maines, author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women''s Sexual Satisfaction e complex interaction between medicine and culture in the control of women''s bodies and sexuality. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE I recommend Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States to readers who want to know more about clitoral surgeries in the American context. The book would also make an excellent teaching tool; it would fit well on syllabi for women''s history, the history of medicine, or the history of sex.
NURSING CLIO Rodriguez convincingly argues that the history of clitoral surgery reveals medicine''s approach to female sexuality. She seeks to counter narratives of medical "misogyny" with a more nuanced story that situates the practice . in historical context. JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY Rodriguez vividly and persuasively places the clitoris at the center of a centuries-long medical debate about what''s wrong with the female body, and how it can be surgically adapted to androcentric sexual norms. Required reading if you think the barbaric days of genital cutting are in the American past. --Rachel Maines, author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women''s Sexual Satisfaction ys of genital cutting are in the American past. --Rachel Maines, author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women''s Sexual Satisfaction ys of genital cutting are in the American past. --Rachel Maines, author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women''s Sexual Satisfaction e complex interaction between medicine and culture in the control of women''s bodies and sexuality.
JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE I recommend Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States to readers who want to know more about clitoral surgeries in the American context. The book would also make an excellent teaching tool; it would fit well on syllabi for women''s history, the history of medicine, or the history of sex. NURSING CLIO Rodriguez convincingly argues that the history of clitoral surgery reveals medicine''s approach to female sexuality. She seeks to counter narratives of medical "misogyny" with a more nuanced story that situates the practice . in historical context. JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY Rodriguez vividly and persuasively places the clitoris at the center of a centuries-long medical debate about what''s wrong with the female body, and how it can be surgically adapted to androcentric sexual norms. Required reading if you think the barbaric days of genital cutting are in the American past. --Rachel Maines, author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women''s Sexual Satisfaction ys of genital cutting are in the American past.
--Rachel Maines, author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women''s Sexual Satisfaction dical debate about what''s wrong with the female body, and how it can be surgically adapted to androcentric sexual norms. Required reading if you think the barbaric days of genital cutting are in the American past. --Rachel Maines, author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women''s Sexual Satisfaction ys of genital cutting are in the American past. --Rachel Maines, author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women''s Sexual Satisfaction.