A cross-cultural study of female initiation rites

Societies with male initiation rites involving both genital operation and isolation will be associated with painful initiation rites for females

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Chi-square	Supported	p < .001	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Genital Operation	Independent Combined	Body Alterations, Puberty And Initiation
Male Initiation	Independent Combined	Puberty And Initiation
Isolation	Independent Combined	Puberty And Initiation
Female initiation rites with pain	Dependent	Puberty And Initiation

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Brown, Judith K.	1963	Societies with male initiation involving both genital operation and isolation are positively associated with painful initiation rites for females.	`UNKNOWN`	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Brown, Judith K.	1963	"If one limits the definition of male initiation rites to only those ceremonies characterized by both a genital operation and seclusion, a very strong relationship emerges between these male rites and those female initiation ceremonies which [cause pain to initiate]" (845)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Brown, Judith K.	1963	"In societies practicing patrilocal residence, in which there is also an exclusive mother-infant sleeping arrangement, female initiation rites will subject the initiate to extreme pain in the form of a genital operation or extensive tattooing" (843)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ericksen, Karen Paige	1989	Initiation rites are positively associated with excision (197)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	In societies where the kin group is patrilineal or double-descent over matrilineal, male genital operations will be a part of initiation rites (379, 190).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author