"An examination of the medical history of nymphomania allows us to observe the tensions and contradictions inherent in nineteenth-century assumptions about female sexuality during a period ofcontention over the nature of femaleness."
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Curator comment: This is a meticulously annotated treatise on the development of "major shifts in perception, diagnosis, and treatment that begin to occur in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as nymphomania was transformed from a biological to a psychological disease."
Source: Groneman, C. (1994), Nymphomania: The Historical Construction of Female Sexuality. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 19(2): 337-367.