Sexual myths of modernity : sadism, masochism, and historical teleology / / Alison M. Moore
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| Autore: |
Moore Alison M.
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| Titolo: |
Sexual myths of modernity : sadism, masochism, and historical teleology / / Alison M. Moore
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2016] |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.77/5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sadomasochism - History |
| Political violence - History | |
| Teleology - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Perversion, gender, and nature in nineteenth-century visions of pleasure, violence, and civilization -- Psychoanalytic sexual teleology -- Civilized perversions in interwar europe -- Critical myths of nazi perversion : sadism, homosexuality, enlightenment, and barbarism -- The polarizing myth of "real" sadists and masochists -- Fantasies of the "sadiconazista" -- Nazi sexual pathology in historiography -- Genocidal pleasures -- Bibliography -- About the author. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This ambitious and wide-ranging study of late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture and thought transverses texts of evolutionary biology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, political propaganda, fiction, historiography of Nazism, and scholarship on comparative genocide to analyze the notion that mass violence is sexually motivated. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sexual myths of modernity |
| ISBN: | 1-4985-3073-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815827303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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