Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Sherria Ayuandini

Finger Pricks and Blood Vials: How doctors medicalize ‘cultural’ solutions to demedicalize the ‘broken’ hymen in the Netherlands

Sherria Ayuandini is a Sociocultural Graduate Student with the Department of Anthropology here at Washington University in St. Louis. Her focus of study is medical anthropology, specifically a medical procedure called hymenoplasty. Sherria looks at this procedure in the Netherlands in the context of migration issues, women empowerment, and religion.

For more information on her research and publications, visit her page.