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Impotence : a cultural history / Angus McLaren.
LIBRA RC889 .M345 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McLaren, Angus.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Impotence--History.
- Impotence.
- Impotence--Social aspects.
- Erectile Dysfunction--history.
- Men--psychology.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Erectile Dysfunction--history.
- Men--psychology.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- The impenetrable penetrator: manhood in Greece and Rome
- When "desire refuses service": impotence in the Christian west
- The "infirmity of others": laughing at fumblers in early modern Europe
- "Shameful to wives, ridiculous for husbands, and unworthy of tribunals": impotence in the age of reason
- Neurasthenia, decadence, and nineteenth-century manhood
- Marketing manly vigor: Victorian medicine versus quackery
- Sigmund Freud, Marie Stopes, and "the love of civilized man"
- Sex glands, rejuvenation, and eugenics between the wars
- The "impotence boom": from Kinsey to Masters and Johnson
- Viagra: hard science or hard sell?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226500768
- 0226500764
- OCLC:
- 70218064
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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