Sexuality at the fin de siecle
Subtitle: the makings of a "central problem"
By: edited by Peter Cryle and Christopher E. Forth.
Contributors: Cryle, P. M. 1946-; Forth, Christopher E.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780874130379
Subjects: Sex -- History -- 19th century; Sex customs -- History -- 19th century; Body, Human in popular culture -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the makings of a central problem / Peter Cryle and Christopher E. Forth; title: Anatomies of desire : photographic exhibitions of female bodies in fin-de-siecle anatomical museums / Elizabeth Stephens; title: Beyond the theater of desire : hysterical performativity and perverse choreography in the writings of the Salpetriere School, 1862-93 / Jonathan Marshall; title: The bastard offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite : sexual "anomalies" and medical curiosity in France / Gabrielle Houbre; title: The aesthetics of the spasm / Peter Cryle; title: Measurements of civilization : non-western female sexuality and the fin-de-siecle social body / Heike Bauer; title: "The despair of unhappy love" : pederasty and popular fiction in the Belle Epoque / Michael L. Wilson; title: Fin-de-siecle sexuality and excretion / Alison Moore; title: A diet of pleasures : sexuality, dietetics, and identity at the fin de siecle / Christopher E. Forth; title: The "open secret," affect, and the history of sexuality / Carolyn J. Dean; title: Afterword : sex and heredity at the Fin de Siecle / Vernon A. Rosario.; title: Introduction : the makings of a central problem / Peter Cryle and Christopher E. Forth; title: Anatomies of desire : photographic exhibitions of female bodies in fin-de-siecle anatomical museums / Elizabeth Stephens; title: Beyond the theater of desire : hysterical performativity and perverse choreography in the writings of the Salpetriere School, 1862-93 / Jonathan Marshall; title: The bastard offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite : sexual "anomalies" and medical curiosity in France / Gabrielle Houbre; title: The aesthetics of the spasm / Peter Cryle; title: Measurements of civilization : non-western female sexuality and the fin-de-siecle social body / Heike Bauer; title: "The despair of unhappy love" : pederasty and popular fiction in the Belle Epoque / Michael L. Wilson; title: Fin-de-siecle sexuality and excretion / Alison Moore; title: A diet of pleasures : sexuality, dietetics, and identity at the fin de siecle / Christopher E. Forth; title: The "open secret," affect, and the history of sexuality / Carolyn J. Dean; title: Afterword : sex and heredity at the fin de siecle / Vernon A. Rosario.