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A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual Sciences

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Authors:
  1. Jacinthe Flore

    1. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Maps the emergence of medico-scientific discourses on sexual appetites in Western society from the nineteenth to twenty-first century

  • Argues that discourses of sexual appetite and their techniques played a key role in the formation of sexual subjectivities

  • Develops a genealogical methodology to analyse how sexual appetite was diagnosed, pathologised and managed

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. A Cartography of Appetites

    • Jacinthe Flore
    Pages 1-23

  3. Scientia Sexualis and the Patient Case History

    • Jacinthe Flore
    Pages 25-52

  4. Elixirs of Vigour

    • Jacinthe Flore
    Pages 53-80

  5. Measuring Sex

    • Jacinthe Flore
    Pages 81-116

  6. The Diagnostic Manual and Technologies of Psychiatry

    • Jacinthe Flore
    Pages 117-146

  7. The Sexual Pharmacy

    • Jacinthe Flore
    Pages 147-170

  8. Coda

    • Jacinthe Flore
    Pages 171-173

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 175-180
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About this book

This book offers a genealogy of the medicalisation of sexual appetite in Europe and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century. Histories of sexuality have predominantly focused on the emergence of sexual identities and categories of desire. They have marginalised questions of excess and lack, the appearance of a libido that dwindles or intensifies, which became a pathological object in Europe by the nineteenth century. Through a genealogical approach that draws on the writings of Michel Foucault, A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual Sciences examines key ‘moments’ in the pathologisation of sexuality and demonstrates how medical techniques assumed critical roles in shaping modern understandings of the problem of appetite. It examines how techniques of the patient case history, elixirs and devices, measurement, diagnostic manuals and pharmaceuticals were central to the medicalisation of sexual appetite. Jacinthe Flore argues that these techniques are significant for understanding how a concern with ‘how much?’ has transformed medical knowledge of sexuality since the nineteenth century. The questions of ‘how much?’, ‘how often?’ and ‘how intense?’ thus require a genealogical investigation that pays attention to the emergence of medical techniques, the transformation of forms of knowledge and their effects on the problematisations of sexual appetite.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

    Jacinthe Flore

About the author

Jacinthe Flore is a Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Social and Global Studies Centre at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual Sciences

  • Authors: Jacinthe Flore

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39423-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39422-6Published: 12 March 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39425-7Published: 12 March 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39423-3Published: 11 March 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 180

  • Topics: Cultural History, Social History, History of Science, Gender and Sexuality, History of Medicine

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