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Frigidity : An Intellectual History / by P. Cryle, A. Moore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cryle, P. M. (Peter Maxwell), 1946-
- Series:
- Genders and Sexualities in History, 2730-9487
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Social history.
- World history.
- Medicine--History.
- Medicine.
- Sociology.
- Social groups.
- Europe--History.
- Europe.
- History of Science.
- Social History.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- History of Medicine.
- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
- European History.
- Local Subjects:
- History of Science.
- Social History.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- History of Medicine.
- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
- European History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Long History of a Pseudoscientific Object; 1 Frigiditas and Impotentia; 2 Female Impotence in the Nineteenth Century; 3 Vaginismus; 4 The Late Nineteenth Century: A Multiplicity of Genres; 5 The Wedding Night; 6 Treatment 1: Medicine; 7 Treatment 2: Psychology; 8 Relocating Marie Bonaparte's Clitoris; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613290403
- 9781283290401
- 1283290405
- 9780230349797
- 023034979X
- 9780230337039
- 0230337031
- OCLC:
- 758334069
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