Female Perversions
The Temptations of Madame Bovary
Louise J. Kaplan(Author)
Penguin Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 27. May 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
592 pages
978-0-14-017229-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book looks at our understanding of sexuality and gender roles, and the way that modern society distorts erotic expression. It dispels the myth that perversion is simply a quest for forbidden sexual pleasure, or the province of men alone. Readers are taken on a foray into the minds of men and women whose perversions preoccupy their every waking moment - and yet save them from being overwhelmed by anxiety, depression or psychosis. Drawing on examples from clinical case studies, literature and the love lives of novelists, the author argues that all perversions are products of gender stereotyping.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
347 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-017229-4 (9780140172294)
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Content
Prologue - the doctor-patient game; what is a perversion?; a memorial to the horror of castration; the female castration complex - the inner genital world and separation anxiety; other memorials - the male castration complex; perverse scenarios; feminine stereotypes and the female perversions; the temptations of Emma Bovary; masquerades; stolen goods; for female eyes only; mutilations; the child as salvation; little soul murders - pure girls and virile boys; feminine, masculine - the codes of perversion.