Feminine sexual pathologies

Journal of the History of Sexuality

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-7

  Cryle, Peter ^a   Downing, Lisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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References (27)

1. Michel Foucault, Histoire de la sexualité, vol. 1, La volonté de savoir (Paris: Gallimard, 1976).
2. Quoted in Benjamin Ball, La folie érotique (Paris: Baillière, 1888), 7-8.
3. Henri Beaunis, Les sensations internes (Paris: Alcan, 1889), 47.
4. Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero, La femme criminelle et la prostituée, trans. Louise Meille (Paris: F. Alcan, 1896), 53.
5. Ibid., xi, 59.
6. Ibid., 59.
7. Ibid., 428.
8. Ibid., 507-8.
9. For a discussion of these discourses of masculine excess see Lisa Downing, "The Birth of the Beast: Death-Driven Masculinity in Monneret, Zola and Freud," Dix-neuf, no. 5 (2005): 28-46.
10. For more recent histories of sexual pathology see, for example, Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, eds., Homosexuality in Modern France (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996);
11. Vernon Rosario, The Erotic Imagination: French Histories of Perversity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997);
12. Roy Porter and Lesley Hall, The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995);
13. Lesley A. Hall, Hidden Anxieties: Male Sexuality, 1900-1950 (Cambridge: Polity, 1991);
14. G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter, eds., Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment (Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1987);
15. George Stambolian and Elaine Marks, eds., Homosexualities and French Literature: Cultural Contexts, Critical Texts (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1979).
16. See Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997);
17. Hélène Cixous, Portrait de Dora (Paris: des Femmes, 1976);
18. Luce Irigaray, Speculum de l'autre femme (Paris: Minuit, 1974);
19. Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse (London: Secker and Warburg, 1987);
20. Sheila Jeffreys, Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution (London: Women's, 1990);
21. Terry Castle, The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993);
22. Annamarie Jagose, Lesbian Utopics (New York: Routledge, 1994).
23. Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual Instinct, a Medico-Forensic Study, trans. Franklin S. Klaf (New York: Arcade Publishing, 1998);
24. John Money, Lovemaps: Clinical Concepts of Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition in Childhood, Adolescence, and Maturity (New York: Irvington, 1986).
25. Ornella Moscucci, The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993);
26. Ludmilla Jordanova, Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Hemel Hempstead, U.K.: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989);
27. Roberta McGrath, Seeing Her Sex: Medical Archives and the Female Body (Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2002).