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_2doi
035 _a(OCoLC)1045560971
035 _a(OCoLC-P)1045560971
050 4 _aHQ449 .C739 2019
082 0 4 _a306.7094
100 1 _aCrawford, Katherine.
245 1 0 _aEunuchs and Castrati
_h[electronic resource] :
_bDisability and Normativity in Early Modern Europe.
260 _aMilton :
_bRoutledge,
_c2018.
300 _a1 online resource (253 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aDescription based upon print version of record.
505 0 _aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Castrates, crossings, and pejorative sexual scripting; 1. Male castration and/as disability; 2. Transsexuality; 3. Sexual impairment and the making of modern sexuality; Notes; PART 1: Inceptions; 1. Making defective men: Physiology, medicine, and the therapeutics of castration; 1. Medical transformations; gender effects; 2. Castration therapeutics; 3. Toward a medical genealogy; Notes
505 8 _a2. The castration conundrum: Civil law creates sexual disability1. Roman rights and wrongs; 2. Exemplary unmanning; 3. Evasion and exclusion; 4. Castrates and legal animosity; Notes; 3. Marrying castrates, or: how to make a disabled social subject; 1. The dialectics of the religious castrate; 2. The canonists on castration; The triumph of "true semen"; 4. Marriage, scandal, and disability; 5. Instantiating disability; Notes; PART 2: Negotiations; 4. Playing the eunuch; 1. Someone wanting something, singing something; 2. Menacing eunuchs; 3. Castrates, couples, and cons
505 8 _a4. Conclusion, or conflating castratesNotes; 5. The spectacular crossings of castrati; 1. Foundations; 2. Rising discord; 3. Cacophonous controversy; 4. Muffling the (semi-)men; Notes; 6. Exotic others: Racial mappings on the castrate body; 1. Defamiliarity breeds contempt; 2. Access and (the anxieties of) race; 3. Eliding complicities; Notes; Conclusion: A history of interlocking vilifications; Notes; References; Index
520 3 _aEunuchs 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.Ranging from Greco-Roman times to thetwenty-first century, Katherine Crawford brings together travel accounts, diplomatic records, and fictional sources, as well as existing scholarship, to demonstrate how early modern interlocutors reacted to and depictedcastrates. She reveals how medicine and law operated to maintain the privileges of bodily integrity and created and extended prejudice against those without it. In consequence, castrates were constructed as gender deviant, disabled social subjects and demarcated as inferior. Early modern cultural locithen reinforced these perceptions, encouraging an othering of castrates in public contexts.These extensive, almost obsessive accounts of appearance, social propensities, and gender characteristics of castrated men reveal the historical lineages of sexual stigma and hostility towards gender non-normative and physically impaired persons. For Crawford, they are the roots of sexual and physical prejudices that remain embedded in the western experience today.
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