{"product_id":"the-secret-vice-masturbation-in-victorian-fiction-and-medical-culture-9780719077142","title":"The secret vice Masturbation in Victorian fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the first book on shine light on the hitherto neglected topic of female masturbation, especially as it pertains to women in clinical writing and the bestselling popular medical works aimed at the female reader\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgement\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. ‘It is more than blackguardly, it is deadly’: masturbation in the male\u003cbr\u003e2. ‘A beauty treatment that leaves us glowing’?: female masturbation and its consequences\u003cbr\u003e3. ‘The languor which I had long felt began to display itself\u003cbr\u003ein my countenance’: vampires, lesbians and masturbators\u003cbr\u003e4. ‘That mighty love which maddens one to crime’: masturbation and same-sex desire in Teleny\u003cbr\u003e5. ‘His behaviour betrays the actual state of things’: onanism and obsessive behaviour in Our mutual friend\u003cbr\u003e6. ‘Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face’: conflicting signifiers of vice in The picture of Dorian Gray and The mystery of Edwin Drood\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037320249687,"sku":"9780719077142","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719077142.jpg?v=1750935276","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-secret-vice-masturbation-in-victorian-fiction-and-medical-culture-9780719077142","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}