Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood

by Gary Taylor

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415938813
• ISBN13: 9780415938815
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"