On the Nature of Things Erotic - Softcover

Gonzalez-Crussi, Frank

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9780679721994: On the Nature of Things Erotic

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ISBN 10: 0679721991 ISBN 13: 9780679721994

Publisher: Vintage, 1989

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Essays discuss human desire, male jealousy, sexual problems, the Marquis de Sade, attitudes toward women, seduction, secret love affairs, and sexual morality

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About the Author:

Gonz�lez-Crussi is Professor emeritus of pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the author of The Five Senses, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and Notes of an Anatomist, winner of the nonfiction first prize of the Society for Midland Authors. He lives in Chicago.

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Many readers surely will identify with this physician-essayist's lament that the modern woman is too dependent on facial makeup and men's opinions of her. But when he argues that women still represent an embodiment of the life force, at once redeeming and dangerous, he seems to endorse an old-fashioned biological view of female destiny. Turning to men, Gonzalez-Crussi (Notes of an Anatomist) links their need to dominate and devalue women to the Greeks' elevation of homosexuality and the medieval church's antifeminism. One essay offers a perceptive diagnosis of male jealousy, another reassesses the Marquis de Sade as a taxonomist of cruelty. Topics dissected in the eight erudite essays gathered here include lovers' need for secrecy, a Chinese novelist's clinical account of seduction and the concept of romantic passion as a feverish illness. First serial to the New York Times Book Review.
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