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Male Circumcision in Japan

Genaro Castro-Vázquez author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:30th Sep '15

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Male Circumcision in Japan offers an analysis of the surgical procedure based on extensive ethnographic investigation, and is framed within historical and current global debates to highlight the significance of the Japanese case.

“In a book that draws deftly from a range of scholars and theories, Castro-Vázquez invites us to consider the biomedicalization of the practice in the sociohistorical context of gender and sexual ideology in Japan. … the book is an important contribution to the sociology of masculinity, of sexuality, of bodies, of medicine, and of knowledge and thus, a worthwhile read.” (Amanda Kennedy, Men and Masculinities, Vol. 20 (1), 2017) 

ISBN: 9781137518750

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 3747g

205 pages

1st ed. 2015