Impotence : a cultural history / Angus McLaren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLaren, Angus.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Impotence--History.

Impotence.

Impotence--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As anyone who has watched television in recent years can attest, we live in the age of Viagra. From Bob Dole to Mike Ditka to late-night comedians, our culture has been engaged in one long, frank, and very public talk about impotence-and our newfound pharmaceutical solutions. But as Angus McLaren shows us in Impotence, the first cultural history of the subject, the failure of men to rise to the occasion has been a recurrent topic since the dawn of human culture. Drawing on a dazzling range of sources from across centuries, McLaren demonstrates how male sexuality was

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Impenetrable Penetrator: Manhood in Greece and Rome

2. When "Desire Refuses Service": Impotence in the Christian West

3. The "Infirmity of Others": Laughing at Fumblers in Early Modern Europe

4. "Shameful to Wives, Ridiculous for Husbands, and Unworthy of Tribunals": Impotence in the Age of Reason

5. Neurasthenia, Decadence, and Nineteenth-Century Manhood

6. Marketing Manly Vigor: Victorian Medicine versus Quackery

7. Sigmund Freud, Marie Stopes, and "the Love of Civilized Man"

8. Sex Glands, Rejuvenation, and Eugenics between the Wars

9. The "Impotence Boom": From Kinsey to Masters and Johnson

10. Viagra: Hard Science or Hard Sell?

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-318) and index.

ISBN:

9786611965891

9781281965899

1281965898

9780226500935

0226500934

OCLC:

476228537