Female Circumcision : Multicultural Perspectives [1 ed.] 9780812201024, 9780812219418

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Female Circumcision : Multicultural Perspectives [1 ed.]
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Making a significant contribution to the large debate over the transition from "scriptural" to "scientifi

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Why did Saint Augustine ask God to “circumcise [his] lips”? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight’s head on the F

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An investigation of how the expansion of modern medicine in Turkey transformed young boys’ experiences of circumcision.

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This book is a rich ethnographic and historic account of the juridification of prior consultation in Brazil. In her case

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