Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries

Gabriele Griffin is Professor of Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. Malin Jordal is a Researcher at Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.

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