Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood - Couverture rigide

Taylor, Gary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415927854 ISBN 13 : 9780415927857

Editeur : Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Castration A unique and cutting edge look at the West's fascination with, and misunderstanding of castrated males, taking in the sweep of Western thought on 'the operation'. Full description

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415927854
• ISBN 13: 9780415927857
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 318