Sexual Perversions, 1670–1890 [electronic resource] /
Peakman, J.editor.
A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sexual perversion in history : an introduction / Julie Peakman -- Staging perversion : the restoration's sexual allegory of (un)civil war / Becky McLaughlin -- Objects of desire, identity and eros in the writings of Lord Hervey and Charlotte Charke / Marilyn Morris -- The woman in man's clothes and the pleasures of Delarivier Manley's 'new cabal' / Jennifer Frangos -- The hostile gaze : perverting the female form, 1688-1800 / Jenny Skipp -- Rape in early eighteenth-century London : a perversion 'so very perplex'd' / Jennie Mills -- Morbid parts : gender, seduction and the necro-gaze / Rebecca E. May -- Religious sexual perversion in nineteenth-century anti-Catholic literature / Diana Peschier -- Tropics of sexuality : sexual excesses and 'oriental vices' in the British Raj / Pashmina Murthy -- Chinese sexuality and the bound foot / Sandra Adams.
A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history.
Civilization—History.
Sociology.
Clinical psychology.
Social history.
World history.
Sexual behavior.
Sexual psychology.
Cultural History.
Gender Studies.
Clinical Psychology.
Social History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Sexual Behavior.