“The Price to Pay for our Common Good”: Genital Modification and the Somatechnologies of Cultural (In)Difference

Sullivan, Nikki

doi:10.1080/10350330701448736

Cited by 26 publications

(12 citation statements)

References 17 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…There is always a politics to such naming and knowledge-making projects. Mutilation was crucial to new policies as it also motivated new laws and the "modernizing" of old ones to incorporate the word mutilation, but as Sullivan (2007) notes, the political credentials of this naming can also be suspect: anti-FGM legislation distinguishes "between barbarism and propriety -between 'us' and 'them'" (ibid. : 400).…”

Section: Judging Mutilation In Australiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Uz takva imenovanja i stvaranje znanja uvijek je vezana politika. Mutilacija je bila ključna za nove politike jer je dovela do toga da se u nove i "modernizirane" stare zakone ugradi riječ mutilacija, no kako uočava Sullivan (2007), politički bodovi kod tog imenovanja također mogu biti sumnjivi: zakoni koji zabranjuju žensku genitalnu mutilaciju razlikuju "barbarizam i uljudnost, 'nas' i 'njih'" (ibid. : 400).…”

Section: Prosudba Mutilacije U Australijiunclassified

See 1 more Smart Citation

Deconstructing and Reconstructing. Embracing Alternative Ways of Producing, Classifying and Disseminating Knowledge

Crul

Levitt

Buchowski

et al. 2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this short piece, we argue for a fundamental reconsideration and reorganization of knowledge production. Intellectual and cultural inequality are part and parcel of socioeconomic inequality. How can we create a better world if we are not clear about the premises behind the knowledge that we have about that world and how it is produced? We need to look carefully at what is silenced and what is said out loud; at what is obscured, hiding in plain sight, or given centre stage. Not only is the task at hand to see clearly what comes into view when these embedded assumptions are excavated. It is also to create new words, new methods, and new institutions that do not repeat the same mistakes. It is a plea to train the next generation differently, so they are prepared to chart a new path toward producing, classifying, and using knowledge in more constructive and inclusive ways.

show abstract

Section: Judging Mutilation In Australiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Prosudba Mutilacije U Australijiunclassified

Deconstructing and Reconstructing. Embracing Alternative Ways of Producing, Classifying and Disseminating Knowledge

Crul

Levitt

Buchowski

et al. 2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…On est tous sous influence ça c'est clair, mais on a aussi le choix de moins l 'être,d'accepter ou pas. (Gyne4) Par ailleurs, nous remarquons que la figure de la « patiente-agent » est renforcée par celle de la consommatrice, qui, selon la loi du marché, achète un service (Sullivan 2007). Comme l'affirme une représentante d'ONG : « C'est un choix, elles paient pour, non ?…”

Section: Les Femmes Elles Sont D'accord Conscientes De Ce Qu'elles Funclassified

Nationalisme sexuel : le cas de l’excision et de la chirurgie esthétique génitale dans les discours d’experts en Suisse

Bader

2016

Swiss Journal of Sociology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

RésuméeCet article examine les constructions de sens (frames) autour de l’excision et de la chirurgie esthétique génitale, par l’exemple de la nymphoplastie. L’analyse porte sur des entretiens menés auprès d’experts ayant une connaissance approfondie des pratiques de modification génitale en Suisse. Les résultats montrent que l’excision et la nymphoplastie sont placées dans un rapport de « miroir inversé », où la nymphoplastie est décrite par des caractéristiques positives alors que l’excision représente son miroir négatif. Par conséquent, cet article argumente que le débat sur les « mutilations génitales féminines » en Suisse reproduit l’allégorie du « Nous versus les Autres », conformément à la rhétorique du nationalisme sexuel.

show abstract

“…Bodies are inscribed with meaning that cannot be removed fully from a cultural context. According to Nikki Sullivan, “the formation and transformation of bodies is always a complex inter‐corporeal and inter‐cultural process, effected in and through historically and culturally specific regimes of social regulation” (407). These cultural inscriptions function differently for women and men.…”

Section: Feminist Analysis Of Surgerymentioning

confidence: 99%

Surgical Intervention: Critiquing the Representation of Breast Cancer Surgery in US Women's Magazines

Mason¹

2013

J of American Culture

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“The Price to Pay for our Common Good”: Genital Modification and the Somatechnologies of Cultural (In)Difference

Cited by 26 publications

References 17 publications

Deconstructing and Reconstructing. Embracing Alternative Ways of Producing, Classifying and Disseminating Knowledge

Deconstructing and Reconstructing. Embracing Alternative Ways of Producing, Classifying and Disseminating Knowledge

Nationalisme sexuel : le cas de l’excision et de la chirurgie esthétique génitale dans les discours d’experts en Suisse

Surgical Intervention: Critiquing the Representation of Breast Cancer Surgery in US Women's Magazines

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About