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Carola Eriksson

Researcher, Department of Nursing, Umeå University

Acts of violence: Virginity control and hymen (re)construction

The existing ideas about the hymen described as a breakable membrane that surrounds or partially covers the external vaginal opening lack scientific proof (Christianson and Eriksson, 2004;...

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