Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0557846

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0557846

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Frigidity in France: the history of a sexual pathology and of its place in feminist critique. The history of sexuality is an area of research which puts into historical perspective the disorders and abnormalcies which make up so much modern talk about sexuality. It helps to show that many of the supposed sexual problems which are central to modern thinking took shape only recently, and did so in particular circumstances. This is in fact a very active field of international humanities research, and this project will make an Australian-based scholarly contribution to it. A detailed, circumstantial history of frigidity will make it possible to question the 'science' which founds twentieth-century norms for female sexual behaviour. It will also enable the project to make a critical contribution to modern feminist thinking.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2005

End Date: 30-08-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $237,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Culture, Gender, Sexuality | Cultural Studies | French

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Gender |

Other Keywords

Cultural Studies | Culture, Gender, Sexuality | French | Gender | Languages and Literature | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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