ISBN:
9780815348641
Language:
English
Pages:
239 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
306.7094
Keywords:
Eunuchs History
;
Castration History
;
Sex History
;
Sex Social aspects
;
Europa
;
Eunuch
;
Kastrat
;
Geschichte 1500-1900
Abstract:
Introduction castrates, crossings, and pejorative sexual scripting -- Inceptions -- Making defective men : physiology, medicine, and the therapeutics of castration -- The castration conundrum : civil law creates sexual disability -- Marrying castrates, or : how to make a disabled social subject -- Negotiations -- Playing the eunuch -- The spectacular crossings of castrati -- Exotic others: racial mappings on the castrate body -- Conclusion a history of interlocking villifications -- Bibliography -- Index
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