The Mastery of Submission: Inventions of Masochism

John K. Noyes

Published by Cornell University Press 1997

The Mastery of Submission

Inventions of Masochism

John K. Noyes

In the series Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501732041

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About this book

Noyes documents the evolution of the concept of masochism with scenes in literature from John Cleland's Fanny Hill through Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs and Pauline Reage's Story of 0.

Author / Editor information

John K. Noyes is Associate Professor of German and Program Coordinator, Theory of Literature, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Reviews

Elaine Showalter, Princeton University:

A very erudite, comprehensive, and searching study, which investigates masochism from a variety of perspectives.

That individuals sometimes derive sexual pleasure from submission to cruel discipline is no longer a dark secret hidden in society's closet. As witnessed in many popular movies, sadomasochism has entered the mainstream. How it achieved this status and, more important, its origins are the focus of this scholarly work.... This well-researched and penetrating study, geared to academics and the most informed lay readers, is recommended for academic libraries.

Noyes presents a scholarly examination of the history of ambiguities of the concept of masochism.... Throughout, he analyzes fiction dealing with masochism, and constantly points to the sociocultural milieu surrounding this behavior as both defining it and producing motives for engaging in it.

An interesting book.... Historians will find this book full of interesting historical speculations about the origin and evolution of masochism.... A very carefully argued and imaginative piece of work that will be indispensable to anyone working in the history of sexuality.

An excellent and informative study.... John Noyes's book is rich in content, complex in argument, and profitable meat for the analytic reader to chew on.

Noyes has written an erudite, thoughtful book on masochism.... The breadth of Noyes's scholarship is impressive.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Inventions of Masochism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Beaten Women, Biology, and Technologies of Control The Politics of Masochism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Reason, Passion, and Nineteenth-Century Liberalism Kraffi-Ebing and Sacher-Masoch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
3. Technologies of Punishment, Penance, and Pleasure The Invention of Universal Masochism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
4. Imperialist Man, Civilizing Woman, and the European Male Masochist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
5. Narratives of Mastery, Fantasies of Failure Freud on Masochism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
6. Beyond the Death Instinct History, Control, and the Gendering of Masochism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
7. Disappearing and Reappearing Subjects Masochism, Modernity, Postmodernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Keywords: History; Cultural Studies

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Published: September 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501732041