A Rose By Any Other Name? Symmetry and Asymmetry in Male and Female Genital Cutting

J. Steven Svoboda and Robert Darby
“A Rose By Any Other Name?
Symmetry and Asymmetry in Male and Female Genital Cutting”
-from Fearful Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies Around Excision and Circumcision, edited by Chantal Zabus (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009).

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A Rose By Any Other Name? Symmetry and Asymmetry in Male and Female Genital Cutting

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Note: This is a revised and substantially expanded version of the 2007 article originally published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly as “A Rose by any other Name: Rethinking the Similarities and Differences between Male and Female Genital Cutting.”