Ebook: Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood

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.;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.