Castration

Gary Taylor is Professor of English and Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. His books include CulturalSelection: Why Some Achievements Stand the Test of Timeand Others Don't and Reinventing Shakespeare: A CulturalHistory from the Restoration to the Present. He is the general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare.

What Does Manhood Mean? 1. Contest of Texts: Christianity, Freudianity, Humanism 2. Contest of Males: The Power of Eunuchs 3. Contests of Organs: Genital Plural 4. Contest of Gods: Dream Divination 5. Contest of Reproductions: The Rise of the Penis, the Fall of the Scrotum 6. Contest of Genders: Castrating Women 7. Contest of Races: Castrated White Men 8. Contest of Kinds: Confusing Categories 9. Contest of Signs: Branded and Domesticated Male Animals 10. Contest of Times: What Would Jesus Do? The Future of Man AppendixL Thomas Middleton and A Game at Chess Acknowledgments