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Sexual myths of modernity : sadism, masochism, and historical teleology / Alison M. Moore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moore, Alison, 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sadomasochism--History.
- Sadomasochism.
- Political violence--History.
- Political violence.
- Teleology--History.
- Teleology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This ambitious and wide-ranging study of late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture and thought transverses texts of evolutionary biology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, political propaganda, fiction, historiography of Nazism, and scholarship on comparative genocide to analyze the notion that mass violence is sexually motivated.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Perversion, gender, and nature in nineteenth-century visions of pleasure, violence, and civilization
- Psychoanalytic sexual teleology
- Civilized perversions in interwar europe
- Critical myths of nazi perversion : sadism, homosexuality, enlightenment, and barbarism
- The polarizing myth of "real" sadists and masochists
- Fantasies of the "sadiconazista"
- Nazi sexual pathology in historiography
- Genocidal pleasures
- Bibliography
- About the author.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4985-3073-7
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