Frigidity

Name: Frigidity
SKU: 10828489
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An Intellectual History

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Genders and Sexualities in History

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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.

Author Biography:

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 Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.She is the author of Sexual Myths of Modernity; Sadism, Masochism and Historical Teleology (2011).

Release date Australia

December 2nd, 2011

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Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

VI, 317 p.

Pages

317

Series

Genders and Sexualities in History

Dimensions

152x229x23

ISBN-13

9780230303454

Product ID

10828489

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