Female Perversions

by Louise J. Kaplan

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This is a researched foray into the minds of the perverse: men and women governed by unconscious motives which distort their behaviour and give rise to shameful and forbidden desires. Psychotherapist Dr Kaplan dispels the myth that perversion is the province of men alone and reveals female perversions which parody feminine models of submission and purity, just as male perversions caricature masculine ideals of virility. and exhibitionism are male afflictions; while kleptomania, self injury show more and anorexia are female phenomena. She argues that all perversions are the products of gender stereotyping, and that all are instruments of deception. Using case studies and the illuminating story of Flaubert's Emma Bovary, she unfolds the elements of the perverse strategy and opens the reader's mind to the recent trend in the 20th century to contain and regulate the gender ambiguities in each of us. She also identifies the commercialization of deviant sexuality, which trivialises the meaning of erotic freedom. show less

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This book looks at our understanding of sexuality and gender roles, and the way that modern society distorts erotic expression. It dispels the myth that perversion is simply a quest for forbidden sexual pleasure, or the province of men alone. Readers are taken on a foray into the minds of men and women whose perversions preoccupy their every waking moment - and yet save them from being overwhelmed by anxiety, depression or psychosis. Drawing on examples from clinical case studies, literature and the love lives of novelists, the author argues that all perversions are products of gender stereotyping.

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Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
306.7Society, government, & cultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologySocial Behavior - Dating, Marriage, DivorceSexual relations
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RC556 .K334MedicineInternal medicineInternal medicineNeurosciences. Biological psychiatry. NeuropsychiatryPsychiatryPsychopathologyPersonality disorders. Behavior problems

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