Högläsning ur Women Studies: Gender in a transnational world

"...but gynecologists sexual values condemned them to sustain the belief that being female was a disease."

"Castration and impregnation were both regarded as ways to control woman's dangerous sexuality."

"..he regarded woman's sexual independence as a sickness to be treated."

"...clitoridectomy, or female circumcision, has a history in the West and cannot be thought of as a solely African och Islamic custom".

"Clitoridectomy was the first operation performed to check woman's mental disorder."

"Some women adopted the views of gynecologists that castration made women more attractive sexually."