Sexual underworlds of the Enlightenment
By: edited by G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter.
Contributors: Rousseau, G. S.; Porter, Roy, 1946-
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Sex customs -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; Prostitution -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; Pornography -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: From lascivious erudition to the history of mentalities / Théodore Tarczylo; title: The discourse on sex, or sex as discourse / Peter Wagner; title: Modern prostitution and gender in Fanny Hill / Randolph Trumbach; title: Imagination, pregnant women, and monsters in eighteenth-century England and France / Paul-Gabriel Boucé; title: The sorrows of Priapus / G.S. Rousseau; title: The culture of travesty / Terry Castle; title: Vulnerability and the age of female consent / Antony E. Simpson; title: A touch of danger / Roy Porter; title: Passing women / Lynne Friedli; title: Sex and shamanism in the eighteenth century / Gloria Flaherty.