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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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Masculinities and Social Change, 2022 This paper uses the qualitative unstructured interviews and Focus Group Discussions (FGD) to understand how Bamasaaba men conceptualise masculinity in response to safe medical male circumcision (SMMC) in Ugandan.
Dr Bernard Omukunyi
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Andrology, EarlyView.Abstract Background The stretched penile length is recognized as the most reliable measure of true penile size, this fact is not widely acknowledged, and societal myths often associate penile length with other anthropometric measurements. While markers of prenatal androgen exposure, such as anogenital distance and the second‐to‐fourth digit ratio (2D ...
Coşkun Kaya +5 more
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Psychiatric disorder in Xhosa-speaking men following circumcision [PDF]
, 2008 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.This interdisciplinary study, within the fields of anthropology and medicine, describes my qualitative research as an anthropologist into the mental illness histories of five young Xhosa-speaking men ...
Vivian, Lauraine Margaret Helen
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Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2023 Introduction: Objectives: To determine the factors associated with the uptake of Safe Male Medical Circumcision among males aged 18-49 years at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital.
Gilbert Kabanda, Lydia Anywar
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
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Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil University, 2014 Circumcision is an age-long tradition in Africa. Both sexes are often circumcised; however, female circumcision has significantly reduced in some African societies while the practice of male circumcision still continues.
Aliyu Ibrahim
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Beyond the Cut: Generative Refusal and the Reimagining of Jewish Affiliation in Contemporary Israel
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Jewish‐Israeli society, circumcision (brit milah) carries far‐reaching significance, symbolizing both the covenant between god and the Jewish people and serving as a key marker of communal affiliation and cultural continuity. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with Jewish‐Israeli parents who have chosen not to circumcise their sons and using ...
Nina Rageth
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The impact of a pro-male circumcision (MC) approach towards an HIV/AIDS prevention strategy in Botswana [PDF]
, 2009 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-103).This paper investigates how the emergence of male circumcision (MC) as part of a broader HIV prevention strategy will impact on Botswana's HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Mbayi, Letsema
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BMC Public Health, 2008 Background Circumcisions undertaken in non-clinical settings can have significant risks of serious adverse events, including death. The aim of this study was to test an intervention for safe traditional circumcision in the context of initiation into ...
Nqeketo Ayanda +3 more
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