Frigidity [electronic resource] : An Intellectual History /
Cryle, P.author.
Moore, A.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
History.
Social history.
World history.
Medicine—History.
Social groups.
Family.
Europe—History.
History of Science.
Social History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
History of Medicine.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
European History.