Female Genital Surgeries: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable
- 1 March 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Medical Anthropology Quarterly
- Vol. 13 (1) , 79-106
- https://doi.org/10.1525/maq.1999.13.1.79
Abstract
This article reviews the literature on female genital surgeries and examines the extent to which available research supports commonly acceptedKeywords
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