Sexual Myths of Modernity: Sadism, Masochism, and Historical Teleology

by Alison M Moore and Alison M. Moore

This ambitious and wide-ranging study of late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture and thought transverses texts of evolutionary biology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, political propaganda, fiction, historiography of Nazism, and scholarship on comparative genocide to analyze the notion that mass violence is sexually motivated.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739130773
• ISBN13: 9780739130773
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.9"