description: 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.
language: English
title: Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood
titlecomplete: Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood
genres: European History, Nonfiction, Cultural, Gender, History
ratings_count: 34
publisher: Routledge