Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries

Making the Gendered Body in a Globalized World
Herausgeber: Griffin, Gabriele; Jordal, Malin

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together an international range of case studies and interviews with individuals who have had genital re/construction, Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries explores the socio-cultural meanings of clitoral re/construction following female genital cutting (FGC), hymen reconstruction, trans and intersex bodily interventions; and cosmetic surgery.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780815354192
• ISBN-10: 0815354193
• Artikelnr.: 53844197

Autorenporträt

Gabriele Griffin is Professor of Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. Malin Jordal is a Researcher at Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Gabriele Griffin and Malin Jordal
Part 1: Understanding female genital cutting and genital reconstructive
surgery
1. Psychosexual health after female genital mutilation/cutting and clitoral
reconstruction: what does the evidence say?
Jasmine Abdulcadir
2. An analytic review of the literature on female genital
circumcision/mutilation/cutting (FGC): the Möbius strip of body and society
for women with FGC
Gillian Einstein, Danielle Jacobson and Ju Eun Justina Lee
3. Multidisciplinary care for women affected by female genital
mutilation/cutting: findings from Belgium
Els Leye
4. Resistance to reconstruction: the cultural weight of virginity, virility
and male sexual pleasure
R. Elise B. Johansen
Part 2: Routes to reconstruction: desiring surgery
5. The meaning of clitoral reconstruction (CR) and female genital cutting
among immigrant women asking for CR surgery in Sweden
Malin Jordal
6. The need for clitoral reconstruction: engaged bodies and committed
medicine
Michela Villani
7. Circumcising the mind, reconstructing the body: contextualizing genital
reconstructive surgery in Burkina Faso
Margaret Nyarango and Gabriele Griffin
8. 'If you can afford it, you can do it': deliberations of people in
Burkina Faso on clitoral reconstruction after female genital
mutilation/cutting (FGM/C)
Elena Jirovsky
Part 3: (Re)constructive surgery: dilemmas and negotiations
9. Hymen reconstruction surgery in Jordan: sexual politics and the economy
of virginity
Ebtihal Mahadeen
10. Hymen reconstruction as pragmatic empowerment? Results of a qualitative
study from Tunisia
Verina Wild, Hinda Poulin, Christopher W. McDougall, Andrea Stöckl and
Nikola Biller-Andorno
11. Vagina dialogues: theorizing the 'designer vagina'
Ruth Holliday
12. Routes to gender-affirming surgery: navigation and negotiation in times
of biomedicalization
Iwo Nord
13. What constitutes an in/significant organ? The vicissitudes of juridical
and medical decision-making regarding genital surgery for intersex and
trans people in Sweden
Erika Alm
Part 4: Thinking otherwise: affect, ethics and different futures
14. Facing uneasiness in feminist research: the case of female genital
cutting
Kathy Davis
15. Beyond comparision: 'African' female genital cutting and 'western' body
modifications
Carolyn Pedwell
16. Before the cut: rethinking genital identity
Margrit Shildrick and Marie-Louise Holm