Jordan Osserman

Circumcision on the Couch

The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery

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An Independent Book of the MonthPenises, and the things people do with them, have been subjects of controversy for a long time. This book examines how one thing that some people do to penises-remove the foreskin-has become a site upon which vital questions of gender, race, religion, sexuality, and psychic life are negotiated. While most contemporary work on the subject is concerned with whether circumcision is right or wrong, safe or harmful, Circumcision on the Couch takes as its starting point that the significance of male circumcision exceeds anatomical and juridical considerations. Deploying a feminist Lacanian framework, while drawing fr… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5013-6817-2
EAN: 9781501368172
Produktnummer: 37850454
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 264 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Jordan Osserman is Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck (University of London), UK, and a clinical trainee with the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, London.