ANTHR-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Urinary Tract Infection, Gennep, Sepsis
12 Oct 2020
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Surgically removal of clitoris and labia menorah and partial removal of labia majora that is sown over vaginal opening. This creates a smooth surface with tiny hole after it is healed to allow for urine and menstrual blood. This is a match stick size hole: often associated with islam but it is not required by islam texts. There must be a control over their sexuality and fertility. You can check to see if girl is a virgin by looking at her genitals. This is when the surgery is performed by older women with plant anesthesia and there is pressure to be brave. Then you get gifts and gain status of full fledge woman (suffering and hope of being recognized: re-aggregation/re-integration- re introduced into society with new position (new person). A prostitute or someone who did not undergo the surgery has lost her moisture (her fertility: in sudan virgins are made not born (j. boddy)
