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Eunuchs and castrati : disability and normativity in early modern Europe
- Title
- Eunuchs and castrati : disability and normativity in early modern Europe / Katherine Crawford.
- Author
- Crawford, Katherine, 1966-
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-335 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 239 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction castrates, crossings, and pejorative sexual scripting -- Inceptions -- Making defective men : physiology, medicine, and the therapeutics of castration -- The castration conundrum : civil law creates sexual disability -- Marrying castrates, or : how to make a disabled social subject -- Negotiations -- Playing the eunuch -- The spectacular crossings of castrati -- Exotic others: racial mappings on the castrate body -- Conclusion a history of interlocking villifications -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-335
- ISBN
- 9780815348641
- 0815348649
- LCCN
- 2018005138
- 40028446054
- OCLC
- 1008980980
- Author
- Crawford, Katherine, 1966- author.
- Title
- Eunuchs and castrati : disability and normativity in early modern Europe / Katherine Crawford.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028446054
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-335