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By Travis Wisdom, University of Nevada – Las Vegas Abstract For decades feminists worldwide have addressed and combated the harmful practice of female genital mutilation, while largely overlooking male circumcision as genital mutilation. The practices of male and female circumcisions are the result of mainstream ideologies that shape our understandings and consciousness of sexuality and health. The larger framework within which circumcision operates is referred to as “circumcisionism.” Circumcisionism is the hegemonic view that genital circumcision is a normative and acceptable practice. This paper focuses on circumcision of non-consenting male minors, arguing that it is genital mutilation and that the practice should be a feminist issue, as well as a human rights concern. Feminists are encouraged to recognize male circumcision and that Western culture embraces genital mutilation as a perfunctory, yet harmful practice. Introduction Feminist theory asks questions about power, privilege, and oppression and the ways in which gender, race, and class (and other social locations) create power imbalances and socializing influences. Feminists worldwide have critiqued genital surgeries forced upon two million women and young girls annually (Denniston et al., 2010; Abu-Sahlieh, 2001; Wheeler, 2004). Female genital mutilation “violates girls’ and women’s human rights, denying them their physical and mental integrity, their right to freedom from violence and discrimination and, in the most extreme cases, their lives” (Progress against abuse, 2007). Few feminists, however, analyze or criticize male circumcision, which affects 13.3 million males annually (Denniston et al., 2010). Forced genital surgeries are benignly accepted in the societies that justify and practice circumcision. These societies have created ideologies that rationalize the circumcision of children, a phenomenon to which I refer as “circumcisonism.” Circumcisionism can be defined as the hegemonic view in societ

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