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| | The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles |
 | | These surgeries were done to help outcasts pass within mainstream society, according to University of Chicago professor Sander L. Gilman, author of “Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery” (Duke, 1998). |
 | | Other surgeries to help ethnic others “pass,” included the pinning back of “Dumbo ears” and decircumcision, according to Gilman. |
 | | Decircumcision, too, was a procedure undergone by Jewish males, who were thought to be effeminate. |
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