| Our Dark Side: A History of Perversion Contributor(s): Roudinesco, Elisabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0745645933 ISBN-13: 9780745645933 Publisher: Polity Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2009 Annotation: Where does perversion begin? Who is perverse? Ever since the word first appeared in the Middle Ages, anyone who delights in evil and in the destruction of the self or others has been described as 'perverse'. But while the experience of perversion is universal, every era has seen it and dealt with it in its own way. The history of perversion in the West is told here through astudy of great emblematic figures from the Middle Ages (Gilles de Rais, the mystics and the flagellants), the eighteenth century (Sade), the nineteenth century (the masturbating child, the male homosexual and the hysterical woman) to modern times (Nazism in the twentieth century, and the complementary figures of the paedophile and the terrorist in the twenty-first). This study will be of particular interest to students of psychology and gender studies. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) |
| Dewey: 302.542 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 224 pages |