Frigidity: An Intellectual History - Couverture souple

Cryle, P.; Moore, A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1349338133 ISBN 13 : 9781349338139

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

PETER CRYLE is author of Geometry in the Boudoir (1996), The Telling of the Act (2002), and La Crise du plaisir, 1740-1830 (2003). He also co-edited Libertine Enlightenment with Lisa O'Connell (2004) and Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle (2008) with Christopher Forth.

ALISON MOORE is a Scholar of Modern European Intellectual History. She teaches and researches in International Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.She is the author of Sexual Myths of Modernity; Sadism, Masochism and Historical Teleology (2011).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1349338133
• ISBN 13: 9781349338139
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 323
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