Introduction -- Perversion, gender, and nature in nineteenth-century visions of pleasure, violence, and civilization -- Psychoanalytic sexual teleology -- Civilized perversions in interwar europe -- Critical myths of nazi perversion : sadism, homosexuality, enlightenment, and ba…
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, …
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, …