The mastery of submission : inventions of masochism /

Just over a hundred years ago, the Viennese physician Richard von Krafft-Ebing coined the term "masochism," after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, who depicted pleasurable submission to cruelty in his novels. Noyes analyzes the social and political problems that inspired the concept, suggesting,...

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Author / Creator: Noyes, John K. 1955- (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Series:Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry.
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