Ebook: Sexual myths of modernity: sadism, masochism, and historical teleology

Introduction -- Perversion, gender, and nature in nineteenth-century visions of pleasure, violence, and civilization -- Psychoanalytic sexual teleology -- Civilized perversions in interwar europe -- Critical myths of nazi perversion : sadism, homosexuality, enlightenment, and barbarism -- The polarizing myth of "real" sadists and masochists -- Fantasies of the "sadiconazista" -- Nazi sexual pathology in historiography -- Genocidal pleasures -- Bibliography -- About the author.