Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Rethinking the History of Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States
- 1 Women, Masturbation, and Clitoral Surgery, 1862–1945
- 2 Children, Masturbation, and Clitoral Surgery since 1890
- 3 Female Sexual Degeneracy and the Enlarged Clitoris, 1850–1941
- 4 Female Circumcision to Promote Clitoral Orgasm, 1890–1945
- 5 Female Circumcision as Sexual Enhancement Therapy during the Era of the Vaginal Orgasm, 1940–66
- 6 Female Circumcision and the Divisive Issue of Female Clitoral Sexual Pleasure Go Public, 1966–81
- 7 James Burt and the Surgery of Love, 1966–89
- Conclusion: Genital Geographies
- Appendix: The Clitoris in Anatomy and Gynecology Texts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Rethinking the History of Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States
- 1 Women, Masturbation, and Clitoral Surgery, 1862–1945
- 2 Children, Masturbation, and Clitoral Surgery since 1890
- 3 Female Sexual Degeneracy and the Enlarged Clitoris, 1850–1941
- 4 Female Circumcision to Promote Clitoral Orgasm, 1890–1945
- 5 Female Circumcision as Sexual Enhancement Therapy during the Era of the Vaginal Orgasm, 1940–66
- 6 Female Circumcision and the Divisive Issue of Female Clitoral Sexual Pleasure Go Public, 1966–81
- 7 James Burt and the Surgery of Love, 1966–89
- Conclusion: Genital Geographies
- Appendix: The Clitoris in Anatomy and Gynecology Texts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United StatesA History of a Medical Treatment, pp. 239 - 272Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014