Camille Nurka

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Camille Nurka is a gender studies scholar living and working in Australia. She has taught as a sessional lecturer and tutor at a number of Australian universities and published widely on the politics of sexed embodiment. She is a professional freelance copyeditor for academics in the humanities and social sciences. Website: http://camillenurka.com.au/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camillenurkacopyediting/

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12 February 201920 March 2019 · The Body

Female genital appearance: what is normal?

Camille Nurka

Anatomical naming of the female genitals has historically been imprecise, vague and confused. For example, what the ancient Greeks termed the ‘nymphe’ (for the clitoris) would later be applied to the labia minora by the anatomist Vesalius, who thought that the clitoris was a biological abnormality and not a part of the vulva.