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Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present /

How different really were early twentieth-century attitudes towards marital sex from those in the sixteenth and seventeenths centuries, where intercourse was seen as an essential part of a healthy, happy union in which partners should aim to please each other to sustain the marital partnership and t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fisher, Kate (Editor ), Toulalan, Sarah (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Colección:Genders and sexualities in history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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 Britain: 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.