Les Choses et les Mots
Missing Words and Blurry Things in the History of Sexuality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2393000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Cryle (0000-0001-8899-3817, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 437-450 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sexualities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4607 • E-ISSN: 1461-7382 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363460709105709 |
| OpenAlex | W2167324205 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
In Solitary Sex, Thomas Laqueur adopts a position that might be called constructivist but not discursivist. He does not speak, as historians with an allegiance to Foucault's work often do, of 'invention', but argues that masturbation was 'something that had been perfectly well understood since Antiquity, even if it was variously classified and named'. The thing was there already: the word, and any change in words, came later. This article asks some questions about what it might mean for the history of sexuality to talk about unnamed things, missing words, or absent expressions. The examples are taken from the history of frigidity, as an attempt to trace the problematic absence of a name, and the name of a problematic absence
Allegiance · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Linguistics · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2020 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |