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Impotence : a cultural history
- Author
- McLaren, Angus.
- Title
- Impotence : a cultural history / Angus McLaren.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Description
- xvii, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006021188.html <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0707/2006021188-b.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0707/2006021188-d.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-318) and index.
- Contents
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- 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?.
- Kinsey subjects
- Impotence. Men psychology. Medicine history. Sex behavior history.
- ISBN
- 9780226500768 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226500764 (cloth : alk. paper)