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Maps the emergence of medico-scientific discourses on sexual appetites in Western society from the nineteenth to twenty-first century
Argues that discourses of sexual appetite and their techniques played a key role in the formation of sexual subjectivities
Develops a genealogical methodology to analyse how sexual appetite was diagnosed, pathologised and managed
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
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Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Jacinthe Flore
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual Sciences
Authors: Jacinthe Flore
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39423-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39422-6Published: 12 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39425-7Published: 12 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39423-3Published: 11 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 180
Topics: Cultural History, Social History, History of Science, Gender and Sexuality, History of Medicine