After Eunuchs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After Eunuchs write by Howard Chiang. This book was released on 2018-08-07. After Eunuchs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For much of Chinese history, the eunuch stood out as an exceptional figure at the margins of gender categories. Amid the disintegration of the Qing Empire, men and women in China began to understand their differences in the language of modern science. In After Eunuchs, Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing the centrality of new epistemic structures to the formation of Chinese modernity. From anticastration discourses in the late Qing era to sex-reassignment surgeries in Taiwan in the 1950s and queer movements in the 1980s and 1990s, After Eunuchs explores the ways the introduction of Western biomedical sciences transformed normative meanings of gender, sexuality, and the body in China. Chiang investigates how competing definitions of sex circulated in science, medicine, vernacular culture, and the periodical press, bringing to light a rich and vibrant discourse of sex change in the first half of the twentieth century. He focuses on the stories of gender and sexual minorities as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, philosophers, educators, reformers, journalists, and tabloid writers, as they debated the questions of political sovereignty, national belonging, cultural authenticity, scientific modernity, human difference, and the power and authority of truths about sex. Theoretically sophisticated and far-reaching, After Eunuchs is an innovative contribution to the history and philosophy of science and queer and Sinophone studies.
The Perfect Servant
The Perfect Servant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Perfect Servant write by Kathryn M. Ringrose. This book was released on 2007-11-01. The Perfect Servant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Perfect Servant reevaluates the place of eunuchs in Byzantium. Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs as a distinct gender and to illustrate how gender was defined in the Byzantine world. At the same time she explores the changing role of the eunuch in Byzantium from 600 to 1100. Accepted for generations as a legitimate and functional part of Byzantine civilization, eunuchs were prominent in both the imperial court and the church. They were distinctive in physical appearance, dress, and manner and were considered uniquely suited for important roles in Byzantine life. Transcending conventional notions of male and female, eunuchs lived outside of normal patterns of procreation and inheritance and were assigned a unique capacity for mediating across social and spiritual boundaries. This allowed them to perform tasks from which prominent men and women were constrained, making them, in essence, perfect servants. Written with precision and meticulously researched, The Perfect Servant will immediately take its place as a major study on Byzantium and the history of gender.
Eunuchs and Nymphomaniacs
Eunuchs and Nymphomaniacs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eunuchs and Nymphomaniacs write by Anonymous. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Eunuchs and Nymphomaniacs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New York Times bestselling author of Diary of an Oxygen Thief and Chameleon in a Candy Store is back with the spellbinding conclusion to the series. You’ve never seen romance do this before. So brutally honest and breathtakingly perverse you’ll want to throw this book at the wall, but you’ll also want to know if it can possibly get any more disturbing (it can and it does). And as you start to wonder whether men and women were ever even meant to be together, a surprise ending brings the trilogy full circle and provides unexpected closure to an issue raised by a certain photographer's assistant in the first book. Eunuchs and Nymphomaniacs is about how we love today and how increasingly we try to avoid it altogether.
Chinese Eunuchs
Chinese Eunuchs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Eunuchs write by Taisuke Mitamura. This book was released on 1992. Chinese Eunuchs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces the history of eunuchism from its very early days until November 5, 1924, when the system was finally banned and hundreds of eunuchs, "crying pitifully in high-pitched, feminine voices," were expelled from Tzu Chin Palace, thus ending a system that had endured over 2, 000 years and through 25 dynasties.
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem write by Jane Hathaway. This book was released on 2018-08-30. The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan's harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.
