La coupure implicite : circoncision médicale en Amérique
This conference paper identifies essential differences in the way circumcision functions as a metaphor in Judith Butler and Jacques Derrida. With a cultural-critical but non-polemical aim, I argue that Butler, by sublimating circumcision to the realm of philosophical necessity, aims to preclude historical and ethical inquiry into widespread medical circumcision in the United States. Circumcision is a multivalent metaphor—the metaphor of multivalence itself—and may not be restricted to a single, quasi-transcendent range of meaning. More complex than castration, it is the cut that may also affiliate and empower.
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