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Society: Philosophy: Philosophers: A: Abelard, Peter

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Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood  - http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/12/13/taylor/  A review of the book by Gary Taylor which looks at eunuchs through the ages.  The Eunuchs of China  - http://www.usrf.org/news/010308-eunuchs_china.html  About the practice of using emasculated and castrated males to serve in the emperor's harem from the 8th century B.C. to 1912.  The Story of My Misfortunes  - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/abelard-histcal.html  Full text from Peter Abelard's Historia Calamitatum, which recounts his affair with Heloise and subsequent castration.  The Pen(is), Castration, and Identity: Abelard's Negotiations of Gender  - http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/conf/cs95/papers/irvine.html  Paper about Abelard's narratives of emasculation and remasculinization .