Frigidity An Intellectual History

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, psychi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cryle, Peter, Moore, Alison (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2011, 2011
Series:Genders and Sexualities in History
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
Physical Description:VI, 317 p online resource
ISBN:9780230337039