Moving from critical clitoridectomy

O’Connell, Helen; Haller, Britt; Hoe, Venetia

doi:10.1111/ajo.13243

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“…For those recent clinical journal articles (Hayes & Temple‐Smith, 2022; Jackson et al, 2019; Mazloomdoos & Pauls, 2015; O'Connell, 2020; O'Connell & DeLancey, 2005; Pauls, 2015) that have cited the Moore and Clarke article suggesting that anatomical texts downplayed the importance of the clitoris during the early 20th century, they clearly did not know about a larger, much more thorough and replicable study of the same material (Rodriguez, 2016). As noted above, Rodriguez examined more than 250 anatomy and gynecology texts for their representations on the clitoris.…”

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Clitoral Anatomy in the Feminist Literature: Vagina obscura: An anatomical voyage (2020) and Clitoral Conventions and Transgressions: Graphical representations in anatomy texts, c1900‐1991 (1995)

Vilensky

2022

Clinical Anatomy

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O'Connell et al. proposed that the vestibular bulbs be renamed the "clitoral bulbs" because of their consistent relationship to the clitoris and inconsistent relationship to the vestibule. Normally such proposed esoteric changes in anatomical nomenclature would get little notice by anatomists, yet alone the general public; however, many subsequent articles and books placed this change in the context of centuries of male anatomists and physicians downplaying female sexual anatomy and sexuality. Most prominent is a 2022 book by Rachel Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage.Here we review this "Anatomical Voyage" and find author bias in omitting/including erroneous facts in this book. We also present a critique of a 1995 article that appeared in Feminist Studies; Graphical Representations in Anatomy Texts, c1900-1991. This article, which has been repeatedly cited in the clinical literature, asserts that between circa 1950-1980 anatomy textbooks purposely eliminated depicting/labeling the clitoris in illustrations because the authors of the textbooks were reflecting societal norms that de-emphasized the importance of the clitoris.Unfortunately, the methods used by Moore and Clarke are not replicable; and further, their conclusions were not justified because of clear bias in their description and depiction of the anatomy sources they review.

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Section: Graphical Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clitoral Anatomy in the Feminist Literature: Vagina obscura: An anatomical voyage (2020) and Clitoral Conventions and Transgressions: Graphical representations in anatomy texts, c1900‐1991 (1995)

Vilensky

2022

Clinical Anatomy

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“…As discussed in the recent Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ANZJOG) editorial, 'Moving from critical clitoridectomy', the female organs involved in sexual pleasure have a long history of being poorly understood and under-researched. 9 In 2014 an Australian Department of Health review of vulval surgery led to increased scrutiny over the indications for Medicare funded vulval procedures. 10 There is now a discrete item number for repair of anomalies/female genital mutilation and another for vulval hypertrophy.…”

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Female genital cosmetic surgery

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2021

Aust NZ J Obst Gynaeco

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Moving from critical clitoridectomy

Cited by 2 publications

References 14 publications

Clitoral Anatomy in the Feminist Literature: Vagina obscura: An anatomical voyage (2020) and Clitoral Conventions and Transgressions: Graphical representations in anatomy texts, c1900‐1991 (1995)

Clitoral Anatomy in the Feminist Literature: Vagina obscura: An anatomical voyage (2020) and Clitoral Conventions and Transgressions: Graphical representations in anatomy texts, c1900‐1991 (1995)

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