The book you are referring to is titled by the prominent Shakespearean scholar Gary Taylor . 📘 Book Overview
The Early Modern/Renaissance era (focusing on the 1624 play A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton) The 20th Century (focusing on Freudian psychoanalysis) Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood Castration : An Abbreviated History of Western ...
A cultural history of the meaning, function, and act of castration, using it as a lens to understand the cultural construction of masculinity and reproduction in the West. 🔑 Key Themes & Arguments The book you are referring to is titled
He suggests that modern Western culture has shifted away from a reproduction-centric model of sex to a pleasure-centric model, effectively normalizing a "sterile" or non-reproductive male ideal. and act of castration
The Early Christian Church (focusing on Origen and biblical interpretations)