Honor, Impotence, and Male Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century French Medicine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940394 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert A Nye (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-48 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286433 |
| OpenAlex | W2324629724 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Historians of sexuality have noted a tendency in nineteenth-century medical discourse to conflate sex, gender, and sexuality and to treat the identity of individuals as biologically or naturally determined. ' This sexual essentialism, as Jeffrey Weeks has termed it, has helped perpetuate the myth that personal identity is eternally trapped within a binary opposition of male and female difference.2 An important feature of this outlook has been to associate normal or healthy sexuality with an ideal male or female type and to label all departures from this type abnormal or perverse. In the course of the nineteenth century, doctors and sexologists pronounced upon and shaped norms in much the same way as they influenced public thinking about alcoholics, criminals, and the insane.3 These medical norms were not created wholly out of medical materials however; medical specialists were influenced by their professional, social, or political obligations
Honor · Human sexuality · Sociology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History
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Hard Science
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2020 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |