The invention of heterosexual culture / Louis-Georges Tin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tin, Louis-Georges.

Standardized Title:

Invention de la culture hétérosexuelle. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Heterosexuality--History.

Heterosexuality.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 197 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]

Contents:

Part I Chivalric Opposition to Heterosexual Culture 1

1 The Middle Ages: From a Homosocial to a Heterosexual Culture 3

2 The Renaissance: The Continuing Conflict between Homosocial Tradition and Heterosexual Culture 33

3 The Seventeenth Century: The Triumph of Heterosexual Culture over Chivalric Opposition 47

Part II Ecclesiastical Opposition to Heterosexual Culture 51

4 The Medieval Church versus the Heterosexual Couple 53

5 The Renaissance: The Enduring Conflict between the Church and Heterosexual Culture 73

6 The Seventeenth Century: The Triumph of Heterosexual Culture over Ecclesiastical Opposition 93

7 The Twentieth Century: The Last Traces of Clerical Opposition 101

Part III Medical Opposition to Heterosexual Culture 113

8 Heterosexual Love and Medieval and Renaissance Medicine 115

9 The Seventeenth Century: From Lovesickness to Curative Love 125

10 The Twentieth Century: The Last Traces of Medical Opposition 129.

Notes:

Originally published by Editions Autrement in 2008 as: L'invention de la culture hétérosexuelle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262017701

0262017709

OCLC:

768728949