Sociology 2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Labia Minora, The Roots, Bsc Young Boys
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The point of this film is that culture has this capacity to produce what we think innate identities, even to the point of sexuality. They were not aware of their own identity, and only came to be when they came face to face with constructs. How the government changed toward these parts of their identities. It is mandatory for these rituals to happen; it shows the circumcised male as a member of the group and culture, and is a symbol of obeisance and faith. In north america, there is a symbolic attachment in that science and health are over-arching cultural narratives. In the 20th century, it was popular and especially in the 1970"s, it was popular to do, as doctors encouraged it. There was a notion that your penis had to look like your father"s. The roots of such bodily customs link the body and the culture and society.
