Eunuchs and castrati : disability and normativity in early modern Europe / Katherine Crawford.
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Routledge,Taylor & Francis Group,
2019.
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Table of 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.