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The Mastery of Submission : Inventions of Masochism.

Noyes, John K.

The Mastery of Submission : Inventions of Masochism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (276 pages) - Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry Series . - Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry Series .

Cover -- The Mastery of Submission -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Inventions of Masochism -- 1 Beaten Women, Biology, and Technologies of Control The Politics of Masochism -- 2 Reason, Passion, and Nineteenth-Century Liberalism Krafft-Ebing and Sacher-Masoch -- 3 Technologies of Punishment, Penance, and Pleasure The Invention of Universal Masochism -- 4 Imperialist Man, Civilizing Woman, and the European Male Masochist -- 5 Narratives of Mastery, Fantasies of Failure Freud on Masochism -- 6 Beyond the Death Instinct History, Control, and the Gendering of Masochism -- 7 Disappearing and Reappearing Subjects Masochism, Modernity, Postmodernity -- Notes -- Bibiography -- Index.

Noyes documents the evolution of the concept of masochism with scenes in literature from John Cleland's Fanny Hill through Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs and Pauline Reage's Story of 0.

9781501732041


Masochism.
Sadomasochism.
Sexual dominance and submission.


Electronic books.

HQ79 .N694 1997

306.77/5

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