
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


What do recent debates among medical ethicists and lawyers over male infant circumcision reveal about the different ways we view male and female bodies? Rebecca Steinfeld, from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, looks at changing attitudes to religious traditions involving genital cutting. Recorded on Sunday 27th October 2013 in front of a live audience at Sage Gateshead as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking festival.
By BBC Radio 44.3
286286 ratings
What do recent debates among medical ethicists and lawyers over male infant circumcision reveal about the different ways we view male and female bodies? Rebecca Steinfeld, from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, looks at changing attitudes to religious traditions involving genital cutting. Recorded on Sunday 27th October 2013 in front of a live audience at Sage Gateshead as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking festival.

7,639 Listeners

301 Listeners

1,080 Listeners

1,046 Listeners

5,520 Listeners

1,799 Listeners

604 Listeners

1,763 Listeners

1,049 Listeners

1,920 Listeners

488 Listeners

582 Listeners

135 Listeners

128 Listeners

164 Listeners

244 Listeners

182 Listeners

210 Listeners

3,177 Listeners

1,002 Listeners

146 Listeners

119 Listeners

86 Listeners

328 Listeners