Female fetishism : a new look / Lorraine Gamman & Merja Makinen.
"In recent years, the Freudian construction of a passive female sexuality has been severely criticised by feminists. This is the first book to tackle the question of female fetishism and to document women's engagement with this form of sexuality. Most psychoanalytic theory excludes the ver...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Lawrence & Wishart,
1994.
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| Summary: | "In recent years, the Freudian construction of a passive female sexuality has been severely criticised by feminists. This is the first book to tackle the question of female fetishism and to document women's engagement with this form of sexuality. Most psychoanalytic theory excludes the very possibility of the existence of female fetishism. In the face of the wealth of material about fetishistic practices gathered in this book, the authors suggest that Freudian phallocentrism has prevented analysts from seeing the evidence before their eyes."--Publisher information. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0853157553 9780853157557 |