Uncut
Margo Beredjiklian
, Brad MULLER
, Jude Castillo
, Marilyn Stanley
, Noelle Walsh
, Dawn Macdonald
, Dot Mann
, Andrea Pole
, Agnes Marshall
, Natasha Andres
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Chantal Comeau
, Don Gershman
, Andre Labonte
, Sandra Furlotte
, Joseph Chirayil
, Holly Elisabeth
, Sarah Schwartz
, Barry Kazimer
, Kirsten Lyon
, Ryan Woods
, Joe Mitchell
, Brittney Warren
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Kym Marsh
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Kim Cappellina
, Shantell Powell
, Stephanie Trotter
, Meghan Barton
, Kartik Gupta
, Mary Danieli
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Alex Henderson
, Dorothy Wong
, Dorothy Wong
, Ken Gilmour
, Rodney Cross
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Lara Maynard
, Danielle MacKinlay
, Laura Patterson
, kristine hibbs
, Stephen Leckie
, Benita Hartwell
, Kim Driscoll
, Crystal Collins
, Kelly Pollock-Clemett
, Cait Erlenbach
, Lynn Andrews
, Janice Hutchinson
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, A Walsh
editor@49thShelf.com
Uncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture
The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents of male infants worry about whether or not the foreskin should be removed so their little boy can grow up to “look like dad” or to avoid imagined bullying in the locker room. Medical experts and public health organizations argue back and forth about whether circumcision is medically necessary, while “intactivists” advocate that removing an infant’s foreskin without their consent is mutilation.
Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the foreskin and its contentious position in contemporary Anglo-American culture. From language to art, from religion to medicine and public health, Uncut is a provocative book that asks us to ask ourselves what we know and don’t know about this seemingly small piece of skin.
Drawing on all these threads, Jonathan A. Allan leads us through the history and cultural construction of the foreskin—from Michelangelo’s David to parenting manuals, from nineteenth-century panic over masturbation to foreskin restoration—to ultimately ask: what is the future of the foreskin?
