ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |20 pages

WDMM?

chapter 33|16 pages

Contest of Males The Power of Eunuchs

chapter 49|14 pages

Contest of Organs Genital Plural

chapter 63|22 pages

Contest of Gods Dream Divination

chapter 111|22 pages

Contest of Genders Castrating Women

chapter 133|12 pages

Contest of Races Castrated White Men

chapter 145|14 pages

Contest of Kinds Confusing Categories

chapter 185|26 pages

Contest of Times What Would Jesus Do?

chapter |24 pages

t f m

chapter 235|10 pages

Appendix Thomas Middleton and A Game at Chess

chapter 245|2 pages

Acknowledgments