Impotence : a cultural history / Angus McLaren.

Author/creator McLaren, Angus
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Description1 online resource (xvii, 332 pages) : illustrations
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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?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-318) and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: McLaren, Angus. Impotence. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 9780226500768 0226500764
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9780226500935 (electronic bk.)
ISBN0226500934 (electronic bk.)

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