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Circumcision exposed : rethinking a medical and cultural tradition / by Billy Ray Boyd.
LIBRA RD590 .B69 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyd, Billy Ray
- Standardized Title:
- Circumcision, what it does
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Circumcision.
- Circumcision--Social aspects.
- Circumcision--Psychological aspects.
- Infants--Surgery.
- Infants.
- Female genital mutilation.
- Circumcision, Male.
- circumcisions.
- Medical Subjects:
- Circumcision, Male.
- Physical Description:
- 174 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Freedom, Calif. : The Crossing Press, ©1998.
- Summary:
- Nearly 60 percent of all male newborns are routinely circumcised in the U.S. In this book, the founder of the men's group, The Victims Speak, debunks the medical reasons for infant male circumcision and places them in a cultural and historical context. Boyd also explores male and female circumcision in a range of cultures. Illustrations.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Circumcision. San Francisco :Taterhill Press, 1990.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-174).
- ISBN:
- 0895949393
- 9780895949394
- OCLC:
- 38180095
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