Castration

<p><em>Castration</em> 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.</p> What Does Manhood Mean? 1. Contest of Texts: Christianity, Freudianity, Humanism 2. Contest of Males: The Power of Eunuchs 3. Contests of Organs: Genital Plural 4. Contest of Gods: Dream Divination 5. Contest of Reproductions: The Rise of the Penis, the Fall of the Scrotum 6. Contest of Genders: Castrating Women 7. Contest of Races: Castrated White Men 8. Contest of Kinds: Confusing Categories 9. Contest of Signs: Branded and Domesticated Male Animals 10. Contest of Times: What Would Jesus Do? The Future of Man AppendixL Thomas Middleton and A Game at Chess Acknowledgments