Feminizing Venereal Disease

Download or read book Feminizing Venereal Disease written by Mary Spongberg and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spongberg (women's history, Macqurie U., Australia) explores how the perceived source of disease contamination contracted from all women's bodies to those just of fallen women between the late 18th and 20th centuries. Drawing on modern AIDS-related cultural studies, she discusses such aspects as regulation, child prostitution, male sexuality and female degeneration, and the continuing persistence of feminine pathology in biomedical discourse. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR