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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Gabriele Griffin is Professor of Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Malin Jordal is a Researcher at Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Summary
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.
