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Gynecology’s Outrageously Dirty Secret: Medicalized Female Genital Mutilation
Modern gynecology grew from violent roots. J. Marion Sims, celebrated by some as the “father of gynecology,” performed repeated surgeries on enslaved Black women in the 1840s without anesthesia or consent. He justified it by falsely claiming they didn’t feel … Continue reading →
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