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Impotence : a cultural history

Title

Impotence : a cultural history / Angus McLaren.

Author

McLaren, Angus.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

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Description

xvii, 332 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

Impotence > History
Impotence > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-318) and index.

Contents

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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