ABSTRACT
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. Drawing critical attention to how decisions around such surgeries are affected by social, economic and regulatory contexts that change over time and across spaces, it raises questions such as:
- How are bodies genderized through surgical interventions?
- How do such interventions express cultural context?
- How do women who have experienced female genital cutting respond to opportunities for clitoral reconstruction?
- How do female-to-male (FtM) trans people decide on how and where to undertake body modifications?
- What roles do cultural expectations and official regulations play in how people decide to have their bodies modified?
Suggesting that conventional gender binaries are no longer adequate to understanding the quest for bodily interventions, this insightful volume seeks to give a greater voice to those engaged in gender body modification. It will appeal to students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Gender Studies, Social Studies, Sexuality Studies and Cultural Studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|75 pages
Understanding female genital cutting and genital reconstructive surgery
chapter Chapter 1|20 pages
Psychosexual health after female genital mutilation/cutting and clitoral reconstruction
chapter Chapter 2|24 pages
An analytic review of the literature on female genital circumcision/mutilation/cutting (FGC)
chapter Chapter 3|15 pages
Multidisciplinary care for women affected by female genital mutilation/cutting
chapter Chapter 4|14 pages
Resistance to reconstruction
part 2|63 pages
Routes to reconstruction
chapter Chapter 6|11 pages
The need for clitoral reconstruction
chapter Chapter 7|19 pages
Circumcising the mind, reconstructing the body
chapter Chapter 8|16 pages
‘If you can afford it, you can do it’
part 3|84 pages
(Re)constructive surgery
chapter Chapter 9|14 pages
Hymen reconstruction surgery in Jordan
chapter Chapter 10|19 pages
Hymen reconstruction as pragmatic empowerment?
chapter Chapter 12|16 pages
Routes to gender-affirming surgery
chapter Chapter 13|16 pages
What constitutes an in/significant organ?
part 4|46 pages
Thinking otherwise