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Frigidity: An Intellectual History (Genders and Sexualities in History)
Cryle, Peter, Moore, Alison
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Description for Frigidity: An Intellectual History (Genders and Sexualities in History)
Hardcover. 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. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JHBK5; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Genders and Sexualities in History
Number of Pages
317
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230303454
SKU
V9780230303454
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99-15
About Cryle, Peter, Moore, Alison
PETER CRYLE is author of Geometry in the Boudoir (1996), The Telling of the Act (2002), and La Crise du plaisir, 1740-1830 (2003). He also co-edited Libertine Enlightenment with Lisa O'Connell (2004) and Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle (2008) with Christopher Forth. ALISON MOORE is a Scholar of Modern European Intellectual History. She teaches and researches in International ... Read more
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