1st Edition
Eunuchs and Castrati Disability and Normativity in Early Modern Europe
Introduction: Castrates, Crossings, and Pejorative Sexual Scripting
Part I: Inceptions
Chapter 1. Making Defective Men: Physiology, Medicine, and the Therapeutics of Castration
Chapter 2. The Castration Conundrum: Civil Law Creates Sexual Disability
Chapter 3. Marrying Castrates, or: How to Make a Disabled Social Subject
Part II: Negotiations
Chapter 4. Playing the Eunuch
Chapter 5. The Spectacular Crossings of Castrati
Chapter 6. Exotic Others: Racial Mappings on the Castrate Body
Conclusion. A History of Interlocking Villifications
Biography
Katherine Crawford is Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University, USA. She is the author of three books, including The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance (2010). She is interested in the ways that gender informs sexual practice, ideology, and identity in early modernity.
