Notes
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1 Lacan, X, 206; see also 90, where Lacan cites Nunberg as inspiration for his views on circumcision.
2 Irigaray, Marine Lover, 81.
3 Cixous and Derrida, ‘Language of Others.’
4 Lacan, V, 290–1.
5 Lupton, ‘Ethnos and Circumcision,’ 198.
6 Eilberg-Schwartz, Savage in Judaism, 145.
7 The crime of forced circumcision perpetrated by the Kikuyu ethnic group in Kenya against the Luo ethnic group is a recent, gruesome illustration of this point. For the Kikuyu, circumcision is understood as a rite of passage into manhood; however, when they forcibly circumcised Luo men (who did not ordinarily practice the rite), they intended it to humiliate and emasculate them – and sometimes they would castrate rather than circumcise them. See Auchter, “Forced Male Circumcision.”
8 Silverman, Abraham to America, 64.
9 Silverman, ‘Anthropology and Circumcision,’ 423.
10 Silverman, xviii.