About this title: What is nymphomania? Doctors in the 19th century treated it as an organic disease, while in the last century psychologists and psychoanalysts looked to low self-esteem or an unresolved Oedipal complex to explain it. This lively exploration looks at the idea of nymphomania since the early 1800s, and examines the sometimes surprising and ...
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Edition: First Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780393322422ISBN:0393322424
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. "Nymphomania-organic disease, psychological disorder, legal construct, and locker-room joke. Throughout history, it's been all these and more. Today images of sexuality available women permeate our culture, and curiousity about nymphomania appears to be as insatiable as the stereotypical nymphomaniac herself. Carol Groneman follows the ideas of nymphomania over the last two hundred years, unraveling questions about how much is too much sex for women-and who ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fusion Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781901250909ISBN:1901250903
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON & CO INC
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780393322422ISBN:0393322424
Description: New. This lively and fascinating exploration of nymphomania as organic disease, psychological disorder, legal construct, and locker-room joke takes a look at the surprising, contradictory, and illuminating history of the subject over the last 200 years. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W.W.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780393322422ISBN:0393322424
Description: Bargain Price New Book. SubTitle/Content: "fascinating history of a term that has no medical basis & has been repeatedly redefined over time to reflect cultural prejudices & [male] fears of female sexuality". 2000. 238pp. This copy: 2001 printing. read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vision Paperbacks, UK
ISBN-13:9781901250909ISBN:1901250903
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