Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present
By: edited by Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan
Series: Genders and sexualities in history series; Genders and sexualities in history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780230283688
Subjects: Sex; Human body; Mind and body; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "That ere with age, his strength is utterly decay'd': Understanding the male body in Early Modern manhood  -- Jennifer Jordan; title: Confusion embodied: Epistemologies of sex and race in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, and the Histoire naturelle  -- Andrew Wells; title: The hermaphrodite, fecundity and military efficiency: Dangerous subjects in the emerging liberal order of Nineteenth-century Spain  -- Richard Cleminson and Francisco 'Vazquez Garcia; title: Touching bodies: Tact/ility in Nineteenth-century medical photographs and models  -- Elizabeth Stephens; title: 'Farewell to frocks,' 'Sex change' in interwar Britian: Newspaper stories, medical technology and modernity  -- Alison Oram; title: 'Perversity to match the curtains': Queering the life story with Grayson Perry  -- Margaretta Jolly; title: "Unripe' bodies: Children and sex in Early Modern England  -- Sarah Toulalan; title: Urge without desire? Confession manuals, moral casuistry, and the features of Concupiscentia between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth centuries  -- Fernanda Alfieri; title: On the unsteadiness of sexual truth in Eighteenth-century France  -- Peter Cryle; title: 'Lay back, enjoy it and shout happy England': Sexual pleasure and marital duty in Britain, 1918-60  -- Kate Fisher; title: Eros and thanatos in European and American sexology  -- Lisa Downing; title: Sadism as social violence: from Fin-de-Siecle degeneration to the critiques of Nazi sexuality in Frankfurt School thought -- Alison Moore.