Nina Attwood: 2 books
The Prostitute's Body
Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical, literary, pornographic.
Sex Addiction
A Critical History
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help movement in terms of self-diagnosis,...