TY - JOUR
T1 - The invention of the unsexual : situating frigidity in the history of sexuality and in feminist thought
AU - Moore, Alison
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The article discusses concepts of female sexual frigidity in France around the turn and beginning of the twentieth century. It examines medical texts and addresses themes including gender, power, and medicine. The author comments on concepts of women's sexual desire, ideas about excess pleasure and the absence of pleasure in women, and anatomical descriptions of men's and women's sexual organs. The ideas of medical writer Jean Fauconney and psychoanalytic writer Marie Bonaparte are also considered.
AB - The article discusses concepts of female sexual frigidity in France around the turn and beginning of the twentieth century. It examines medical texts and addresses themes including gender, power, and medicine. The author comments on concepts of women's sexual desire, ideas about excess pleasure and the absence of pleasure in women, and anatomical descriptions of men's and women's sexual organs. The ideas of medical writer Jean Fauconney and psychoanalytic writer Marie Bonaparte are also considered.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/558461
UR - http://www.h-france.net/rude/rude%20volume%20ii/Moore%20Final%20Version.pdf
M3 - Article
SN - 1557-3605
VL - 2
SP - 181
EP - 192
JO - French History and Civilization: papers from the George Rude Seminar
JF - French History and Civilization: papers from the George Rude Seminar
IS - 1
ER -