Frigidity: An Intellectual History

Genders and Sexualities in History

by Peter Cryle, Alison M. Moore

This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars and enthusiasts alike. The authors take us through a journey across four centuries, showing how notions of sexual coldness and frigidity have been thought about by legal, medical, psychiatric, psychoanalytic and literary writers.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Sexuality, Queer

323 pages, Hardcover

First published October 11, 2011

About the author

Peter Maxwell Cryle is professor emeritus in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Frigidity: An Intellectual History.