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The moral hierarchy of pleasure: Who controls women’s bodies? (opens the original)
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One of the earliest unambiguous surviving references to female genital cutting appears in a Greek petition written in Memphis in 163 BCE. It concerns a girl named Tathemis and money entrusted to her mother for her circumcision, clothing and eventual dowry. The cutting appears not as an isolated medical event, but as one element in preparing a girl for marriage. More than two thousand years later, the Victorian surgeon Isaac Baker Brown would give genital cutting a different name and justificatio
The moral hierarchy of blood (opens the original)
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Human societies have never treated all blood with the same instinct. We preserve the bloodied banners of martyrs. We speak of blood shed for a nation as a kind of currency, redeemable for honour. Sacrificial blood, across traditions, seals a covenant rather than staining one. The blood a healthy female body produces on a monthly, unremarkable schedule, however, is treated, across an extraordinary range of unrelated cultures, as something to be separated, concealed and waited out. Even women’s bl
Dress and morality : The politics of what women wear (opens the original)
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In the early nineteenth century, in the princely state of Travancore, a woman’s covered chest was not simply a matter of personal choice. Arguably, it still isn’t. But there, covering one’s chest could amount to a violation of the caste order. Nadar women, members of a community historically associated with palmyra climbing and toddy tapping, occupied a low position within the caste hierarchy and were prohibited from wearing an upper cloth in the manner permitted to higher-caste women. An uncove
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