Frigidity: An Intellectual History

by Peter Cryle and Alison Moore

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230303455
• ISBN13: 9780230303454
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"