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Abstract
The Eunuch Archive (EA) is an online community of individuals who identify as a eunuch or have strong interests in castration. The Eunuch Archive contains various discussion forums ranging from safe castration methods to the physical and psychological impact of androgen deprivation. The EA also contains fictional stories written by EA members, which potentially help both the authors and readers work through extreme castration ideations. "Eunuch" as a gender identity is not limited to the online world. There have been at least ten annual gatherings of EA members, as well as a growing acceptance of eunuchs throughout the world (though still minimal). Many countries are now beginning to offer a third gender as a valid gender identity. Preserving information on sites such as the EA along with other trans* dedicated materials can lead to better understanding of the development of gender identities and can also help individuals who desire emasculation but not necessarily feminization to better understand their gender identity and its history. Preserving the EA fills a gap in trans* archives that has previously been unexplored.

Ayub Khan, Eunuchs in Politics or Politics in Eunuchs. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd, 2015, xiv + 150 pp., ₹500 (hardback), ISBN 93-5125-163-2.

'1800. Blueprints for a society' argues the case for the primacy of culture in late 18th-century Dutch society. Drawing upon the work of a generation of dix-huitiémistes it presents an impressive and highly readable overview of the Dutch Enlightenment. Unfortunately, this cultural vantage-point also results in a rather one-sided, if not positively unhistorical reading of this period which — by all accounts so far — was highly charged with politics. In fact, an opportunity is missed to connect the Enlightened civil society of the 1760s and 1770s with the revolutionary developments of the 1780s and 1790s. This review is part of the discussion forum IJkpunt 1800.

Cover -- Frontispiece -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Eunuchs in history and society -- 2. Eunuchs and the royal harem in Achaemenid Persia (559-331 BC) -- 3. Eunuchizing Agamemnon: Clytemnestra, Agamemnon and maschalismos -- 4. Sacred eunuchism in the cult of the Syrian goddess -- 5. Looking for eunuchs: the galli and Attis in Roman art -- 6. Eunuchs and gender transformation: Philo's exegesis of the Joseph narrative -- 7. Eunuchs and early Christianity -- 8. In or out? Origins of court eunuchs -- 9. 'Eunuchs of light'. Power, imperial ceremonial and positive representations of eunuchs in Byzantium (4th-12th centuries) -- 10. Theophylact of Ochrid's In Defence of Eunuchs -- 11. Eunuchs in the late Byzantine empire, c. 1250-1400 -- 12. Eunuch power in imperial China -- 13. The other castrati -- Index.

Despite the fact that Burmese courts had sizeable harems and that eunuchs are typically associated with harems, little attention has been paid to the presence of eunuchs in Burmese courts. This essay provides an overview of the existing English-language literature on eunuchs in Burmese courts, focusing on the three Burmese courts for which mention of eunuchs has survived in the historical record, namely the court at Pegu of the Taungoo dynasty (1486–1599), the court of Mrauk U of the Arakan kingdom (1429–1785), and the so-called 'Court of Ava' of the Konbaung dynasty (1765–1885). Noting the descriptions of eunuchs as Muslim, the essay considers the evidence regarding their numbers, their functions, and their possible origins.

The collected papers in this volume present a unique introduction both to the history of women, of men and eunuchs, or the third sex, in Byzantium and to the various theoretical and methodological approaches through which the topic can be examined. The contributors use evidence from both texts and images to give a wide-ranging picture of the place of women and Byzantine society and the perceptions of women held by that society.Women, Men and Eunuchs offers a unique and valuable exploration of the issue of gender in Byzantium, which will fascinate anyone interested in ancient and m

Words from a song my mother sang to me as a boy, during the 'Croatian Spring' of 1971 that marked the beginning of the struggle of Croatian intellectuals for a free and independent Croatia

The first part of this paper analyzes a text by Theophylact of Ohrid known as In Defense of Eunuchs. In terms of its genre and topic, this work stands alone in Byzantine literature. Through a dialogue between the two interlocutors - a monk and a eunuch, Theophylact challenges the traditional representation of eunuchs. He particularly focuses on the condemnation of castration in Ecclesiastical Canons and secular legislation (of the late Roman Empire and Byzantium). Theophylact highlights the ambivalence of the views on eunuchs in Byzantine society, demonstrating that castration as such did not necessarily lead to the marginalization of the castrated individual. The most important part of Theophylact's Defense offers a comparison between "the bearded" and eunuchs in monastic orders. Also, the affirmation of freedom of choice between good and evil and insisting that an individual should be judged according to his own deeds is the guiding idea of Theophylact's Defense. The second part of the paper contains a Serbian translation of Theophylact's text with a commentary. Besides the French translation by the editor of the critical edition P. Gautier, this is the second complete translation of the Greek original. It deviates from Gautier's version in several places, offering alternative readings of ambiguous places.