Impotence : a cultural history /

As anyone who has watched television in recent years can attest, we live in the age of Viagra. From Bob Dole to Mike Ditka to late-night comedians, our culture has been engaged in one long, frank, and very public talk about impotence?and our newfound pharmaceutical solutions. But as Angus McLaren sh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McLaren, Angus
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Temas:
Impotence > History.
Impotence > Social aspects.
Erectile Dysfunction > history
Men > psychology
Impuissance sexuelle > Histoire.
Impuissance sexuelle > Aspect social.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Infertility.
Impotence
Impotentie.
Culturele aspecten.
Mannelijkheid.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The impenetrable penetrator: manhood in Greece and Rome
  • When "desire refuses service": impotence in the Christian west
  • The "infirmity of others": laughing at fumblers in early modern Europe
  • "Shameful to wives, ridiculous for husbands, and unworthy of tribunals": impotence in the age of reason
  • Neurasthenia, decadence, and nineteenth-century manhood
  • Marketing manly vigor: Victorian medicine versus quackery
  • Sigmund Freud, Marie Stopes, and "the love of civilized man"
  • Sex glands, rejuvenation, and eugenics between the wars
  • The "impotence boom": from Kinsey to Masters and Johnson
  • Viagra: hard science or hard sell?

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