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A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual Sciences
- Springer International Publishing
- 2021
- Taschenbuch
- 192 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030394257
This book offers a genealogy of the medicalisation of sexual appetite in Europe and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century. Histories of sexuality have predominantly focused on the emergence of sexual identities and categories of desire. They have marginalised questions of excess and lack, the appearance of a libido that dwindles or intensifies, which became a pathological object in Europe by the nineteenth century. Through a genealogical approach that draws on the writings of Michel Foucault, A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual Sciences examines key ¿moments¿ in the pathologisation of sexuality and demonstrates how medical techniques assumed critical roles in shaping modern
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