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Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present
Title
Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present / edited by Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan.
ISBN
9780230283688
0230283683
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description
xii, 275 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 08, 2012
Series
Genders and sexualities in history series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Britian: 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.
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