Eunuchs and Castrati examines the enduring fascination among historians, literary critics, musicologists, and other scholars around the figure of the castrate. Specifically, the book asks what influence such fascination had on the development and delineation of modern ideas around sexuality and physical impairment.
Eunuchs and Castrati examines the enduring fascination among historians, literary critics, musicologists, and other scholars around the figure of the castrate. Specifically, the book asks what influence such fascination had on the development and delineation of modern ideas around sexuality and physical impairment.
Katherine Crawford is Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair of Women¿s and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University, USA. She is the author of three books, including The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance (2010). She is interested in the ways that gender informs sexual practice, ideology, and identity in early modernity.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Castrates, Crossings, and Pejorative Sexual Scripting Part I: Inceptions Chapter 1. Making Defective Men: Physiology, Medicine, and the Therapeutics of Castration Chapter 2. The Castration Conundrum: Civil Law Creates Sexual Disability Chapter 3. Marrying Castrates, or: How to Make a Disabled Social Subject Part II: Negotiations Chapter 4. Playing the Eunuch Chapter 5. The Spectacular Crossings of Castrati Chapter 6. Exotic Others: Racial Mappings on the Castrate Body Conclusion. A History of Interlocking Villifications
Introduction: Castrates, Crossings, and Pejorative Sexual Scripting Part I: Inceptions Chapter 1. Making Defective Men: Physiology, Medicine, and the Therapeutics of Castration Chapter 2. The Castration Conundrum: Civil Law Creates Sexual Disability Chapter 3. Marrying Castrates, or: How to Make a Disabled Social Subject Part II: Negotiations Chapter 4. Playing the Eunuch Chapter 5. The Spectacular Crossings of Castrati Chapter 6. Exotic Others: Racial Mappings on the Castrate Body Conclusion. A History of Interlocking Villifications
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309