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Female Perversions: The Temptations of Emma Bovary Book

Distinguished psychoanalyst and author Louise Kaplan scrutinizes the world of sexual perversions and exposes the misconceptions behind them in her masterful study, Female Perversions. Her effort earned the book a nomination for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Kaplan's general thesis is that perversions are as much a function of gender role identity as they are of sexuality. Her thesis also maintains that the predominantly male medical profession has created and perpetuated many of the myths of perverse female sexual behavior. The book outlines various types of perverse behavior--fetishism, voyeurism, exhibitionism--and then analyzes each type outside of society's traditional perspective. As she expounds on her theory, Kaplan invokes Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. She sees many parallels between the plight of Emma Bovary and the perception of female perversions in society today. Kaplan writes lucidly, offering an enlightening insight into the provocative and complex issue of female erotic expression to a range of readers.Read More

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    Combining feminist, Freudian, and literary perspectives, Dr. Kaplan has created a new template for developing ideas about the nature of female perversion. Women are socialized to collaborate with prevailing gender stereotypes, she argues. Accordingly, they devise strategies to hide what she calls "stolen phallic trophies"--intellectual mastery and erotic strivings--perverse strategies that often caricature their femininity. Female perversions. Dr. Kaplan's vision, welcomed by popular and professional audiences alike and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, has now inspired a major motion picture from October Films starring Tilda Swinton and Amy Madigan.

  • 0385262337
  • 9780385262330
  • Louise J. Kaplan
  • 1 January 1991
  • Doubleday
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 580
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