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Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood: Manhood from Prehistory to the Posthuman

Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood: Manhood from Prehistory to the Posthuman

by Gary Taylor (Author)

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    Hardcover 2000

    $141.80
Synopsis

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.

$141.80

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 304
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 27 Oct 2000
ISBN 10: 0415927854
ISBN 13: 9780415927857

Media Reviews
'Gary Taylor... explores this forbidden topic with sharp erudition.' - Philip Howard, The Times, January 2001
Author Bio
Gary Taylor is Professor of English and Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. His books include Cultural Selection: Why Some Achievements Stand the Test of Time and Others Don't and Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present. He is the general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare.