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Autore |
Taylor Gary <1953-, > |
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Titolo |
Castration : an abbreviated history of western manhood / / Gary Taylor |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-95775-4 |
1-135-95776-2 |
1-280-40737-9 |
0-203-90455-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (318 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Castration anxiety |
Masculinity |
Men - Psychology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-298) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Timeline; What Does Manhood Mean?; Contest of Texts Christianity, Freudianity, Humanism; Contest of Males The Power of Eunuchs; Contest of Organs Genital Plural; Contest of Gods Dream Divination; Contest of Reproductions The Rise of the Penis, the Fall of the Scrotum; Contest of Genders Castrating Women; Contest of Races Castrated White Men; Contest of Kinds Confusing Categories; Contest of Signs Branded and Domesticated Male Animals; Contest of Times What Would Jesus Do?; The Future of Man; Appendix Thomas Middleton and A Game at Chess; Acknowledgments; Notes |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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