| Description |
1 online resource (307 pages) |
| Contents |
Chapter WDMM? -- chapter 21 Contest of Texts Christianity, Freudianity, Humanism -- chapter 33 Contest of Males The Power of Eunuchs -- chapter 49 Contest of Organs Genital Plural -- chapter 63 Contest of Gods Dream Divination -- chapter 85 Contest of Reproductions The Rise of the Penis, the Fall of the Scrotum -- chapter 111 Contest of Genders Castrating Women -- chapter 133 Contest of Races Castrated White Men -- chapter 145 Contest of Kinds Confusing Categories -- chapter 159 Contest of Signs Branded and Domesticated Male Animals -- chapter 185 Contest of Times What Would Jesus Do? -- chapter t f m -- chapter 235 Appendix Thomas Middleton and A Game at Chess -- chapter 245 Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
"Castration is a history of the meaning, function, and act of castration from its place in the words of Jesus in the Gospel According to Matthew and the early Church - where Augustine and the Fathers shaped the basic philosophic concepts of sexuality and chastity - to its secular reinvention in the Renaissance and its twentieth-century position at the core of psychoanalysis." "Taylor connects castration to the ancient (and continuing) human drive to re-engineer our own biology. In the medieval love story of Abelard and Heloise a violent castration makes Abelard a better theologian. In the year 2000 a sterile but otherwise functioning man is a boon to the woman who desires sex without the burdens of pregnancy." "Ranging from allegory to zooarchaeology, Castration turns an unusual and discomforting topic into a thoroughly enjoyable narrative on man's obsessive relationship to his genitals, his sexuality, and his manhood."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-298) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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| Subject |
Castration anxiety.
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Masculinity.
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Men -- Psychology.
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Anxiety, Castration -- history
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Anxiety, Castration -- psychology
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Anxiety, Castration
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Orchiectomy -- history
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Orchiectomy -- psychology
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
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Castration anxiety
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Masculinity
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Men -- Psychology
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Mannelijkheid.
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Castratie.
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Psychologische aspecten.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Geschiedenis (vorm)
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203904559 |
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9780203904558 |
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9780415927857 |
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0415927854 |
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1135957762 |
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9781135957766 |
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1280407379 |
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9781280407376 |
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