Frigidity
An Intellectual History
Published on 1. January 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 317 pages
978-1-349-33813-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
VI, 317 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-33813-9 (9781349338139)
DOI
10.1057/9780230337039
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
12/2011
Palgrave Macmillan
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Persons
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).
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).
Content
Introduction. A Long History of a Pseudo-Scientific 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 Bibliography