Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction; 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?; 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; 3 Multidisciplinary care for women affected by female genital mutilation/cutting: findings from Belgium
13 What constitutes an in/significant organ? The vicissitudes of juridical and medical decision-making regarding genital surgery for intersex and trans people in SwedenPART 4 Thinking otherwise: affect, ethics and different futures; 14 Facing uneasiness in feminist research: the case of female genital cutting; 15 Beyond comparison: 'African' female genital cutting and 'western' body modifications; 16 Before the cut: rethinking genital identity; Index
4 Resistance to reconstruction: the cultural weight of virginity, virility and male sexual pleasurePART 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; 6 The need for clitoral reconstruction: engaged bodies and committed medicine; 7 Circumcising the mind, reconstructing the body: contextualizing genital reconstructive surgery in Burkina Faso
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)PART 3 (Re)constructive surgery: dilemmas and negotiations; 9 Hymen reconstruction surgery in Jordan: sexual politics and the economy of virginity; 10 Hymen reconstruction as pragmatic empowerment? Results of a qualitative study from Tunisia; 11 Vagina dialogues: theorizing the 'designer vagina'; 12 Routes to gender-affirming surgery: navigation and negotiation in times of biomedicalization