Overview

Nymphomania—organic disease, psychological disorder, legal construct, and locker-room joke. Throughout history, it's been all these and more. Today images of sexually available women permeate our culture, and curiosity about nymphomania appears to be as insatiable as the stereotypical nymphomaniac herself. Carol Groneman follows the idea of nymphomania over the last two hundred years, unraveling questions about how much is too much sex for women—and who decides. 

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Author:   Carol Groneman (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.30cm
Weight:   0.306kg
ISBN:  

9780393322422

ISBN 10:   0393322424
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   06 September 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Diseases have biographies, just like people, and Carol Groneman has produced a fascinating one, filled with lively and thought-provoking examples that illuminate the critical relationship between medical practice and cultural ideas about women's bodies and their sexuality. --Joan Jacobs Brumberg, author of Fasting Girls and The Body Project

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Carol Groneman is professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and co-author of Corporate Ph.D.: The Humanities and Business. She lives in New York.

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