Impotence: A Cultural HistoryUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 сент. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 350 As anyone who has watched television in recent years can attest, we live in the age of Viagra. From Bob Dole to Mike Ditka to late-night comedians, our culture has been engaged in one long, frank, and very public talk about impotence—and our newfound pharmaceutical solutions. But as Angus McLaren shows us in Impotence, the first cultural history of the subject, the failure of men to rise to the occasion has been a recurrent topic since the dawn of human culture. |
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When Desire Refuses Service | 25 |
The Infirmity of Others | 50 |
Shameful to Wives Ridiculous for Husbands and Unworthy of Tribunals | 77 |
Neurasthenia Decadence and NineteenthCentury Manhood | 101 |
Marketing Manly Vigor | 126 |
Sigmund Freud Marie Stopes and The Love of Civilized Man | 149 |
Sex Glands Rejuvenation and Eugenics Between the Wars | 181 |
The Impotence Boom | 208 |
Viagra | 235 |
Conclusion | 263 |
Notes | 267 |
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