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Frigidity

An Intellectual History

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Peter Cryle

    1. University of Queensland, Australia

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  2. Alison Moore

    1. Cultural Studies Group, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction: A Long History of a Pseudoscientific Object

    • Peter Cryle, Alison Moore
    Pages 1-22

  3. Frigiditas and Impotentia

    • Peter Cryle, Alison Moore
    Pages 23-36

  4. Female Impotence in the Nineteenth Century

    • Peter Cryle, Alison Moore
    Pages 37-66

  5. Vaginismus

    • Peter Cryle, Alison Moore
    Pages 67-99

  6. The Late Nineteenth Century: A Multiplicity of Genres

    • Peter Cryle, Alison Moore
    Pages 100-131

  7. The Wedding Night

    • Peter Cryle, Alison Moore
    Pages 132-160

  8. Treatment 1: Medicine

    • Peter Cryle, Alison Moore
    Pages 161-190

  9. Treatment 2: Psychology

    • Peter Cryle, Alison Moore
    Pages 191-221

  10. Relocating Marie Bonaparte’s Clitoris

    • Peter Cryle, Alison Moore
    Pages 222-247

  11. Conclusion

    • Peter Cryle, Alison Moore
    Pages 248-256

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 257-317
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Queensland, Australia

    Peter Cryle

  • Cultural Studies Group, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

    Alison Moore

About the authors

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).

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