Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery
Clearinghouse Connector – May 2011
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Overview
Cosmetic genital surgery : labioplasty and phalloplasty Better Health Channel, 2010
Genital cosmetic surgery Women’s Health Queensland Wide, 2007
Labial surgery for well women : a review of the literature BJOG an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2010
Vaginal ‘rejuvenation’ and cosmetic vaginal procedures Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 2008
Requests for cosmetic genitoplasty : how should healthcare providers respond? British Medical Journal, 2007
Feminist analysis
The ‘designer vagina’ and the pathologisation of female genital diversity : interventions for change Radical Psychology, 2009
Female genital cosmetic surgery : freakish or inevitable? : analysis from medical marketing, bioethics, and feminist theory Feminism and Psychology, 2008
Pretty woman : genital plastic surgery and the production of the sexed female subject gnovis, 2006
Genitals and ethnicity : the politics of genital modification Reproductive Health Matters, 2010
Media coverage
The perfect vagina Top Documentary Films, 2008
(Please be aware that this link includes images of female genitalia)
Healing it to a single crease [blog] Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2010
(Please be aware that this link includes images of female genitalia)
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