RELOCATING MARIE BONAPARTE'S CLITORIS

2009/05/13 by Alison Moore · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · Psychology · #Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes #French Historical and Cultural Studies #Historical Gender and Feminism Studies #Freudian slip #Human sexuality #Psychoanalytic theory #Clitoris #Psychoanalysis #Pleasure #Phallic stage #Sociology #Gender studies #Psychology #Psychotherapist

paper · doi:10.1080/08164640902852373

openalex publication_date 2009/05/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

The story of Marie Bonaparte's clitoris reveals that sexual categories most often imagined today to form part of the most repressive or misogynist discourses of the past were, in fact, in their own...

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