Castration : an abbreviated history of western manhood / Gary Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Gary, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Castration anxiety.

Masculinity.

Men--Psychology.

Men.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Castration is a lively history of the meaning, function, and act of castration from its place in the early church to its secular reinvention in the Renaissance as a spiritualized form of masculinity in its 20th century position at the core of psychoanalysis.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Timeline; What Does Manhood Mean?; Contest of Texts Christianity, Freudianity, Humanism; Contest of Males The Power of Eunuchs; Contest of Organs Genital Plural; Contest of Gods Dream Divination; Contest of Reproductions The Rise of the Penis, the Fall of the Scrotum; Contest of Genders Castrating Women; Contest of Races Castrated White Men; Contest of Kinds Confusing Categories; Contest of Signs Branded and Domesticated Male Animals; Contest of Times What Would Jesus Do?; The Future of Man; Appendix Thomas Middleton and A Game at Chess; Acknowledgments; Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-298) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-95775-4

1-135-95776-2

1-280-40737-9

0-203-90455-9

9780203904558

OCLC:

437082927