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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: Law and Christianity (sort of)
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Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 10:45:39 EST
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> > 
> > In Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly a clear line of evolution is shown from the
> > burning of millions of women in Europe, through the female mutilations of
> > the 19th Century, up to the lobotomies and shock treatments of today.
> > 
> > Richard Mateosian
> > {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!srm    nsc!srm@decwrl.ARPA
> 
> I have never heard of this book or author, but I am interested because of
> what you didn't say here.  MILLIONS of women were burned as witches or 
> whatever in Europe?  Female mutilations; is this like foot-binding or is
> there more?  Are you saying lobotomies and shock treatment are used to
> torture (for pleasure or control) women?  I really am interested in more
> detail.  If my slightly slanted questions received affirmative answers, I
> would like to know what evidence (FACTS) the author gives.  It seems a
> cover-up of this proportion would be near impossible [:-/-)].
> 
I'll also add that by female mutilations, people usually mean foot-binding,
among other things, but the primary item is the clitorectomy, the removal
of a girl's clitoris to greatly reduce her future pleasure in sex (don't
want them to ahve any fun. now do we ?). This is still practiced in many
African and Near Eastern cultures and is probably the most pervasive type
of female mutilation still extant. In some places, the girl is made to
sit in a cold stream all night and the clitoris is removed in the morning
(when she is more or less numb) with a piece of broken glass; in other,
so-called "civilised" societies, the girl is seized out of sleep by her
female relatives and the doctor slashes her while she is only half-awake
and cannot even protest (she has little choice).

(My sources of information come largely through my college major, which was
social and cultural anthropology)

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jcpatilla


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