Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present

Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present

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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. KATE FISHER Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter, UK, and has published 'Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain c.1918-1960' (2006) and (with Simon Szreter) 'Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life inEngland, 1918-1963' (2010). She co-directs, with Rebeca Langlands, 'Sexual Knowledge, Sexual History', funded by the Wellcome Trust. . SARAH TOULALAN Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter, UK. Her book 'Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-century England' was published in 2007. She is now working on a project on children and sex (knowledge and abuse) inearly modern England funded by the Leverhulme Trust. . . INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Contributors Introduction; 'S.Toulalan' - PART I: BODIES AND DIFFERENCE - 'That ere with Age, his Strength is Utterly Decay'd': Understanding the Male Body in Early Modern Manhood; 'J.Jordan' - Confusion Embodied: Epistemologies of Sex and Race in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748-9) and the 'Histoire Naturelle' (1749-1804); 'A.Wells - 'The Hermaphrodite, Fecundity and Military Efficiency: Dangerous Subjects in the Emerging Liberal order of Nineteenth-Century Spain;' R.Cleminson' & 'F.Vazquez Garcia' - Touching Bodies: Tact/ility in Nineteenth-century Medical Photographs and Models; 'E.Stephens - ''Farewell to Frocks', 'Sex Change' in Interwar Britain: Newspaper Stories, Medical Technology and Modernity; 'A.Oram - ''Perversity to Match the Curtains': Queering the Life Story with Grayson Perry; 'M.Jolly - 'PART II: BODIES, SEX AND DESIRE - 'Unripe' Bodies: Children and Sex in Early Modern England; 'S.Toulalan' - Urge without Desire? ConfessionManuals, Moral Casuistry, and the Features of 'Concupiscentia' between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 'F.Alfieri' - On the Unsteadiness of Sexual Truth in Eighteenth-Century France; 'P.Cryle' - 'Lay back, Enjoy it and Shout Happy England': Marital Duty and Sexual Pleasure; 'K.Fisher' - Eros and Thanatos in European and American Sexology; 'L.Downing' - Sadism as Social Violence:From 'fin-de-siècle' Degeneration to the Critiques of Nazi Sexuality in Frankfurt School Thought; 'A.Moore' -

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-28368-8
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 288
  • Fecha Publicación: 21/10/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés