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Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present / by Kate Fisher, Sarah Toulalan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Genders and Sexualities in History, 2730-9487
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Social history.
- Europe--History--1492-.
- Europe.
- History, Modern.
- Sex (Psychology).
- Cultural History.
- History of Science.
- Social History.
- History of Early Modern Europe.
- Modern History.
- Psychology of Gender and Sexuality.
- Local Subjects:
- Cultural History.
- History of Science.
- Social History.
- History of Early Modern Europe.
- Modern History.
- Psychology of Gender and Sexuality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws attention to continuities in thinking about bodies and sex: concept may have changed, but hey nevertheless draw on older ideas and language.
- Contents:
- "That ere with age, his strength is utterly decay'd': Understanding the male body in Early Modern manhood / Jennifer Jordan
- Confusion embodied: Epistemologies of sex and race in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, and the Histoire naturelle / Andrew Wells
- The hermaphrodite, fecundity and military efficiency: Dangerous subjects in the emerging liberal order of Nineteenth-century Spain / Richard Cleminson and Francisco 'Vazquez Garcia
- Touching bodies: Tact/ility in Nineteenth-century medical photographs and models / Elizabeth Stephens
- 'Farewell to frocks,' 'Sex change' in interwar Britain: Newspaper stories, medical technology and modernity / Alison Oram
- 'Perversity to match the curtains': Queering the life story with Grayson Perry / Margaretta Jolly
- "Unripe' bodies: Children and sex in Early Modern England / Sarah Toulalan
- Urge without desire? Confession manuals, moral casuistry, and the features of Concupiscentia between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth centuries / Fernanda Alfieri
- On the unsteadiness of sexual truth in Eighteenth-century France / Peter Cryle
- 'Lay back, enjoy it and shout happy England': Sexual pleasure and marital duty in Britain, 1918-60 / Kate Fisher
- Eros and thanatos in European and American sexology / Lisa Downing
- Sadism as social violence: from Fin-de-Siecle degeneration to the critiques of Nazi sexuality in Frankfurt School thought / Alison Moore.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613615299
- 9781280585463
- 1280585463
- 9780230354128
- 0230354122
- OCLC:
- 793007666
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