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Frigidity: An Intellectual History (Genders and Sexualities in History) by Peter Cryle, Alison Moore (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Frigidity: An Intellectual History (Genders and Sexualities in History) about?
This First Major Study Of A Curiously Neglected Term In The History Of Sexuality Will Intrigue Students, Scholars And Enthusiasts Alike. The Authors Take Us Through A Journey Across Four Centuries, Showing How Notions Of Sexual Coldness And Frigidity Have Been Thought About By Legal, Medical, Psychiatric, Psychoanalytic And Literary Writers. Introduction: A Long History Of A Pseudoscientific Object -- Frigiditas And Impotentia -- Female Impotence In The Nineteenth Century -- Vaginismus -- The Late Nineteenth Century: A Multiplicity Of Genres -- The Wedding Night -- Treatment 1 : Medicine -- Treatment 2 : Psychology -- Relocating Marie Bonaparte's Clitoris -- Conclusion. Peter Cryle, Alison Moore. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 292-310) And Index.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter Cryle, Alison Moore (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786613290403
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Sociology, History
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