Castration : An Abbreviated History Of Western ... Apr 2026

He suggests that modern Western culture has shifted away from a reproduction-centric model of sex to a pleasure-centric model, effectively normalizing a "sterile" or non-reproductive male ideal.

The book heavily utilizes three primary eras and texts to trace this history: Castration : An Abbreviated History of Western ...

The Early Modern/Renaissance era (focusing on the 1624 play A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton) The 20th Century (focusing on Freudian psychoanalysis) Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood He suggests that modern Western culture has shifted