Nymphomania the book

this is actually semi madonna related. Tonight, there was a show on tv that interviews the author of this book, NYMPHO mania, Ms.Carol Groneman. Throughout the interview they put have some music, and they used madonnas DIE ANOTHER DAY as well as AMERICAN LIFE.  .

about the book
The dictionary still defines nymphomania as "excessive sexual desire in
a female," yet, as Groneman shows, the condition may not even exist.
Nymphomania, she argues, is a metaphor reflecting society's ambivalence
toward and discomfort with female desire. Victorians considered
nymphomania an organic disease. In the early 20th century,
psychoanalytic theory associated nymphomania with frigidity, penis
envy, lesbianism and prostitutionAall thought to stem from a woman's
"immature" inability to enjoy vaginal orgasms. By the mid-20th century,
scientific evidence of female sexual response led to even more confused
theories of nymphomania, as "sexperts" sought to reconcile evidence of
multiple orgasms and easy arousal with notions of morality. Groneman, a
professor of history and co-editor of To Toil the Livelong Day:
America's Women at Work, 1780-1980, sketches the historical and social
contexts in which nymphomania was considered, and enlivens her text
with numerous medical and legal case histories. She exposes the
historical association of nymphomania with "lower" classes and new
immigrants, and documents the disturbing tendency to blame rape and
incest on the alleged provocation of the victim. Groneman concludes,
"[E]ven though the sexual revolution appears to have changed the double
standard about who gets to enjoy sex or how much sex is 'normal,' a
deep ambivalence still exists... toward female sexuality." Groneman's
anecdotal history stimulates thought and supports her feminist
perspective, but remains more a general overview than a complex
analysis. Agent, Georges Borchardt. (Aug.)