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Culture, Health & Sexuality
An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care
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The social vagina: labia elongation and social capital among women in Rwanda

Pages 813-826 | Received 03 Dec 2009, Accepted 31 May 2010, Published online: 27 Jul 2010

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Carolyn M. Audet, Meridith Blevins, Charlotte Buehler Cherry, Lazaro González-Calvo, Ann F. Green & Troy D. Moon. (2017) Understanding intra-vaginal and labia minora elongation practices among women heads-of-households in Zambézia Province, Mozambique. Culture, Health & Sexuality 19:5, pages 616-629.
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Guillermo Martínez Pérez, Esmeralda Mariano & Brigitte Bagnol. (2015) Perceptions of Men on Puxa-Puxa, or Labia Minora Elongation, in Tete, Mozambique. The Journal of Sex Research 52:6, pages 700-709.
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Guillermo Martínez Pérez, Brigitte Bagnol & Concepción Tomás Aznar. (2014) Autoerotism, Homoerotism, and Foreplay in African Women Who Practice Labia Minora Elongation: a Review. International Journal of Sexual Health 26:4, pages 314-328.
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Guillermo Martínez Pérez, Concepción Tomás Aznar & Brigitte Bagnol. (2014) Labia Minora Elongation and its Implications on the Health of Women: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Sexual Health 26:3, pages 155-171.
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Ina Skafte & Margrethe Silberschmidt. (2014) Female gratification, sexual power and safer sex: female sexuality as an empowering resource among women in Rwanda. Culture, Health & Sexuality 16:1, pages 1-13.
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Guillermo Martínez Pérez, Harriet Namulondo & Concepción Tomás Aznar. (2013) Labia minora elongation as understood by Baganda male and female adolescents in Uganda. Culture, Health & Sexuality 15:10, pages 1191-1205.
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Annemiek Richters, Théoneste Rutayisire & Henny Slegh. (2013) Sexual transgression and social disconnection: healing through community-based sociotherapy in Rwanda. Culture, Health & Sexuality 15:sup4, pages S581-S593.
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Jo Boyden. (2012) Why are current efforts to eliminate female circumcision in Ethiopia misplaced?. Culture, Health & Sexuality 14:10, pages 1111-1123.
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Jessica Påfs. (2021) A sexual superpower or a shame? Women’s diverging experiences of squirting/female ejaculation in Sweden. Sexualities 26:1-2, pages 180-194.
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Patience Mutunami & Tamsin Bradley. (2022) Labia elongation and the experiences of Zimbabwean women in the UK. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, pages 1-17.
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Evelyne Kestelyn, Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil, Marie Michelle Umulisa, Grace Umutoni, Alice Uwingabire, Lambert Mwambarangwe, Mireille Uwineza, Stephen Agaba, Tania Crucitti, Janneke van de Wijgert & Thérèse Delvaux. (2018) High acceptability of a contraceptive vaginal ring among women in Kigali, Rwanda. PLOS ONE 13:6, pages e0199096.
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Lauren M. Sardi & Priscilla Marie Maldonado. 2016. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies 1 3 .
Stephen Bell & Peter Aggleton. (2013) Social influences on young people's sexual health in Uganda. Health Education 113:2, pages 102-114.
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Sara Rodrigues. (2012) From vaginal exception to exceptional vagina: The biopolitics of female genital cosmetic surgery. Sexualities 15:7, pages 778-794.
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Mathabo Khau. (2012) Female sexual pleasure and autonomy: What has inner labia elongation got to do with it?. Sexualities 15:7, pages 763-777.
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