SARAH B. M. RODRIGUEZ is a lecturer in Medical Humanities and Bioethics and in Global Health Studies at Northwestern University.

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.

• Introduction: Rethinking the History of Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United StatesWomen, Masturbation, and Clitoral Surgery, 1862-1945Children, Masturbation, and Clitoral Surgery since 1890Female Sexual Degeneracy and the Enlarged Clitoris, 1850-1941Female Circumcision to Promote Clitoral Orgasm, 1890-1945Female Circumcision as Sexual Enhancement Therapy during the Era of the Vaginal Orgasm, 1940-66Female Circumcision and the Divisive Issue of Female Clitoral Sexual Pleasure Go Public, 1966-89James Burt and the Surgery of Love, 1966-89Conclusion: Genital GeographiesAppendix: The Clitoris in Anatomy and Gynecology TextsNotesBibliographyIndex

SARAH B. M. RODRIGUEZ is a lecturer in Medical Humanities and Bioethics and in Global Health Studies at Northwestern University.

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.

• Introduction: Rethinking the History of Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United StatesWomen, Masturbation, and Clitoral Surgery, 1862-1945Children, Masturbation, and Clitoral Surgery since 1890Female Sexual Degeneracy and the Enlarged Clitoris, 1850-1941Female Circumcision to Promote Clitoral Orgasm, 1890-1945Female Circumcision as Sexual Enhancement Therapy during the Era of the Vaginal Orgasm, 1940-66Female Circumcision and the Divisive Issue of Female Clitoral Sexual Pleasure Go Public, 1966-89James Burt and the Surgery of Love, 1966-89Conclusion: Genital GeographiesAppendix: The Clitoris in Anatomy and Gynecology TextsNotesBibliographyIndex

SARAH B. M. RODRIGUEZ is a lecturer in Medical Humanities and Bioethics and in Global Health Studies at Northwestern University.

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.

• Introduction: Rethinking the History of Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United StatesWomen, Masturbation, and Clitoral Surgery, 1862-1945Children, Masturbation, and Clitoral Surgery since 1890Female Sexual Degeneracy and the Enlarged Clitoris, 1850-1941Female Circumcision to Promote Clitoral Orgasm, 1890-1945Female Circumcision as Sexual Enhancement Therapy during the Era of the Vaginal Orgasm, 1940-66Female Circumcision and the Divisive Issue of Female Clitoral Sexual Pleasure Go Public, 1966-89James Burt and the Surgery of Love, 1966-89Conclusion: Genital GeographiesAppendix: The Clitoris in Anatomy and Gynecology TextsNotesBibliographyIndex