Castration :: an abbreviated history of western manhood /

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Taylor, Gary, 1953-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Routledge, 2000.
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (307 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-298) and index.
ISBN:0203904559
9780203904558
9780415927857
0415927854
1135957762
9781135957766
1280407379
9781280407376

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