Form And Foreskin

Author : A W Strouse
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823294765
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Form & Foreskin written by A W Strouse and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Saint Augustine ask God to “circumcise [his] lips”? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight’s head on the Feast of the Circumcision? Is Chaucer’s Wife of Bath actually—as an early glossator figures her—a foreskin? And why did Ezra Pound claim that he had incubated The Waste Land inside of his uncut member? In this little book, A. W. Strouse excavates a poetics of the foreskin, uncovering how Patristic theologies of circumcision came to structure medieval European literary aesthetics. Following the writings of Saint Paul, “circumcision” and “uncircumcision” become key terms for theorizing language—especially the dichotomies between the mere text and its extended exegesis, between brevity and longwindedness, between wisdom and folly. Form and Foreskin looks to three works: a peculiar story by Saint Augustine about a boy with the long foreskin; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. By examining literary scenes of cutting and stretching, Strouse exposes how Patristic treatments of circumcision queerly govern medieval poetics.

Author : A. W. Strouse
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823294773
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Form and Foreskin written by A. W. Strouse and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Saint Augustine ask God to “circumcise [his] lips”? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight’s head on the Feast of the Circumcision? Is Chaucer’s Wife of Bath actually—as an early glossator figures her—a foreskin? And why did Ezra Pound claim that he had incubated The Waste Land inside of his uncut member? In this little book, A. W. Strouse excavates a poetics of the foreskin, uncovering how Patristic theologies of circumcision came to structure medieval European literary aesthetics. Following the writings of Saint Paul, “circumcision” and “uncircumcision” become key terms for theorizing language—especially the dichotomies between the mere text and its extended exegesis, between brevity and longwindedness, between wisdom and folly. Form and Foreskin looks to three works: a peculiar story by Saint Augustine about a boy with the long foreskin; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. By examining literary scenes of cutting and stretching, Strouse exposes how Patristic treatments of circumcision queerly govern medieval poetics.

Author : Robert Darby
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022610978X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Surgical Temptation written by Robert Darby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to masturbation and bed-wetting. Thirty years later the procedure again came under hostile scrutiny, culminating in its disappearance during the 1960s. Why Britain adopted a practice it had traditionally abhorred and then abandoned it after only two generations is the subject of A Surgical Temptation. Robert Darby reveals that circumcision has always been related to the question of how to control male sexuality. This study explores the process by which the male genitals, and the foreskin especially, were pathologized, while offering glimpses into the lives of such figures as James Boswell, John Maynard Keynes, and W. H. Auden. Examining the development of knowledge about genital anatomy, concepts of health, sexual morality, the rise of the medical profession, and the nature of disease, Darby shows how these factors transformed attitudes toward the male body and its management and played a vital role in the emergence of modern medicine.

Author : George C. Denniston
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0585399379
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Male and Female Circumcision written by George C. Denniston and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-27 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year around the world 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls have part or all of their external sex organs cut off. Doctors, parents, and politicians have been misled into thinking that these mutilations are beneficial, necessary and harmless. International respected experts in the fields of medicine, science, politics, law, ethics, sociology, anthropology, history and religion present the latest research, documentation and analysis of this world-wide problem, focusing on the ethical, political and legal aspects of sexual mutilation; the cost and burden to healthcare systems; the latest medical research; anatomical and function consequences; religious and cultural aspects; psychological aspects; and the world-wide campaign to end sexual mutilation.

Author : David Gollaher
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465026531
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery written by David Gollaher and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has a medical practice that carries substantial risk to the patient and offers very little actual benefit become so widely accepted by parents and fiercely advocated by the medical community? Historian of medicine David Gollaher tells the strange history of medicine's oldest enigma and most persistent ritual in Circumcision. From the extraordinarily painful initiation rite of the ancient Egyptians, through the Hebrew purification ritual, through circumcision's use by the rising medical community in the nineteenth century as prevention for ailments ranging from bedwetting to paralysis, the great mystery has been the persistence of the practice through vastly different social contexts.

Author : Genaro Castro-Vázquez
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137518766
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Male Circumcision in Japan written by Genaro Castro-Vázquez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Male Circumcision in Japan offers an analysis of the surgical procedure based on extensive ethnographic investigation, and is framed within historical and current global debates to highlight the significance of the Japanese case.

Author : Felix Bryk
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0898753260
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circumcision in Man and Woman written by Felix Bryk and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel M Carnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781522747857
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foreskin written by Samuel M Carnes and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So many people have no idea what the foreskin is, how it works or its benefits. Instead, all they hear are the many myths surrounding it. This book is dedicated to educating about the foreskin and answering your questions about it. Hopefully, this will help to normalize the foreskin and show that not only is it cool to be intact it is also healthier and all around better.

Author : Ryan D. Collman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110981785
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Apostle to the Foreskin written by Ryan D. Collman and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive examination of circumcision and foreskin in the undisputed Pauline epistles. Historically, Paul's discourse on circumcision has been read through the lens of Paul's supposed abandonment of Judaism and conversion to 'Christianity.' Recent scholarship on Paul, however, has challenged the idea that Paul ever abandoned Judaism. In the context of this revisionist reading of Paul, Ryan Collman argues that Paul never repudiates, redefines, or replaces circumcision. Rather, Paul's discourse on circumcision (and foreskin) is shaped by his understanding of ethnicity and his bifurcation of humanity into the categories of Jews and the nations—the circumcision and the foreskin. Collman argues that Paul does not deny the continuing validity (and importance) of circumcision for Jewish followers of Jesus, but categorically refuses that gentile believers can undergo circumcision. By reading this language in its historical, rhetorical, epistolary, and ethnic contexts, Collman offers a number of new readings of difficult Pauline texts (e.g., Rom 4:9–12; Gal 5:1–4; Phil 3:2–3).

Author : Armando R. Favazza
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801853005
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies Under Siege written by Armando R. Favazza and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-05-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although instances of deliberate skin-cutting are recorded as far back as the old and New Testaments of the Bible the behavior has generally been regarded as a symptom of various mental disorders. With the publication of Bodies Under Siege, a book described in the New York Times Magazine (July 17, 1997) as "the first to comprehensively explore self-mutilation," Dr. Armando Favazza has pioneered the study of the behavior as significant and meaningful unto itself. Drawing from the latest case studies from clinical psychiatry he broadens our understanding of self-mutilation and body modification and explores their surprising connections to the elemental experiences of healing, religions, salvation, and social balance. Favazza makes sense out of seemingly senseless self-mutilative behaviors by providing both a useful classification and examination of the ways in which the behaviors provide effective but temporary relief from troublesome symptoms such as overwhelming anxiety, racing thoughts, and depersonalization. He offers important new information on the psychology and biology of self-mutilation, the link between self-mutilation and eating disorders, and advances in treatment. An epilogue by Fakir Musafar, the father of the Modern Primitive movement, describes his role in influencing a new generation to "experiment with the previously forbidden 'body side' of life" through piercing, blood rituals, scarification, and body sculpting in order to attain a state of grace. The second edition of Bodies Under Siege is the major source of information about self-mutilation, a much misunderstood behavior that is now coming into public awareness.