Male genital cutting: Masculinity, reproduction, and male infertility surgeries in Egypt and Lebanon

Reconceiving the Second Sex: Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue , 2009, Pages 253-278

  Inhorn, Marcia C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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