female circumcision

is a challenge to western culture. Western repulsion to the practice says as much about us as them, specifically it draws from the mid-twentieth century western notion that female selfhood entailes the capacity to experience orgasm (and, for the male, the ability to make this happen).

Parker (1999) demonstrated, most Western accounts of FC tell us far more about our own historically embedded sexual anxieties and subjectivities. Beginning. in the mid-twentieth century, female selfhood entailed the capacity to experience orgasm (and, for the male, the ability to make this happen). From this point of view, the salience of FC in anthropology and wider public discourses is about our history, not their practices. In this regard, it is noteworthy that anthropologist (432)

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