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Sex and sexuality in Stuart Britain / Andrea Zuvich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zuvich, Andrea, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Sex customs.
- Manners and customs.
- History.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Yorkshire ; Philadelphia : Pen & Sword History, 2020.
- Summary:
- Peek beneath the bedsheets of Stuart Britain in this frank, informative, and captivating look at the sexual lives of the peoples of the British Isles between 1603 and 1714. Popular Stuart historian Andrea Zuvich, The Seventeenth Century Lady, explores our ancestors' ingenious, surprising, bizarre, and often entertaining beliefs and solutions to the challenges associated with maintaining a healthy sex life, along with the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behaviour. The author sheds light not only on the saucy love lives of the Royal Stuarts, but also on the dark underbelly of the Stuart era with histories of prostitution, sexual violence, infanticide, and sexual deviance. What was considered sexually attractive in Stuart Britain? At which ages would people be old enough for marriage? What were the penalties for adultery, incest, and fornication? How did Stuart-era peoples deal with infertility, sexually-transmitted illnesses, and child mortality? Find out the answers to these questions - and more - as fashion, food, science, art, medicine, magic, literature, love, politics, faith and superstition of the day are all examined, leaving the reader with a new regard for the ingenuity and character of our seventeenth and early eighteenth-century ancestors.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE SEX & SEXUALITY IN STUART BRITAIN
- ch. 1 The Anatomy of a Stuart-era Person
- ch. 2 How to be a Sexy Stuart!
- ch. 3 Pornography & Erotic Literature
- ch. 4 Prostitution: Or, Whoredom in Stuart Britain
- ch. 5 Stuart Players & Femme Fatales
- ch. 6 Virginity & Pre-Marital Sex: Or, Fornication!
- ch. 7 Stuart-era Gender Roles
- ch. 8 Stuart Marriage: Or, Legal Sex!
- ch. 9 Contraception: Or, How to Sheathe Your Sword
- ch. 10 Bigamy, Widowhood, & Remarriage
- ch. 11 Deviant Sexual Practices, Part I: Same-Sex Relations
- ch. 12 Deviant Sexual Practices, Part II: Incest, Bestiality, & Flagellation
- ch. 13 Reproduction: Or, Ye Natural Consequences of Sexual Congress
- ch. 14 Rape, Abortion, & Infanticide
- ch. 15 Sexually Transmitted Illnesses: Or, Ye Curse Upon Fornicators!
- ch. 16 Libido & Masturbation: Or, Ye Art of Self-Pleasuring
- ch. 17 Stuart Love: Or, Ye Heart's Delighte & Torment
- ch. 18 Adultery & Divorce in Stuart Britain: Or, O Lamentable Sinne!
- ch. 19 Rakes & Rogues: Or, Ye Stuart Libertine
- ch. 20 Interracial & Interethnic Unions: Or, Exotick Sex
- pt. TWO THE SEXY STUARTS
- ch. 21 James VI & I: Swinging Both Ways?
- ch. 22 Charles I: Lusty but Loyal
- ch. 23 Interregnum Intimacies: Or, Puritan Passions
- ch. 24 Charles II & the Sexually Ravenous Restoration
- ch. 25 James II: Or, `The Most Unguarded Ogler of his Time'
- ch. 26 William & Mary: Or, Marriage Between First Cousins
- ch. 27 Queen Anne Probably Wasn't a Lesbian
- Conclusion
- ch. 28 `Parting is such sweet sorrow'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Commins-Holman Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1526753073
- 9781526753076
- OCLC:
- 1104637862
- Publisher Number:
- 99985429138
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