Desire and Discipline : Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West /

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The history of sexuality is one of the newest and fastest-growing areas of scholarly and popular interest. This collection of original essays looks at sexuality in the long stretch between the twelfth and the early seventeenth centuries - a period that remains relatively unexplored, yet one that has...

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Other Authors: Murray, Jacqueline (Editor), Eisenbichler, Konrad (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Seksualiteit.
Sexualverhalten
Sex customs.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
Vie sexuelle > Europe > Histoire > Congres.
Gender Identity > history
Sexual Behavior > history
Sex customs > Europe > History > Congresses.
Toronto <1991>
Westeuropa
Europe.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sex in history: a redux / Vern L. Bullough
  • Playing by the rules : sexual behaviour and legal norms in medieval Europe / James A. Brundage
  • Gender models in Alfonso X's Siete partidas : the sexual politics of 'nature' and 'society' / Roberto J. Gonzalez-Casanovas
  • 'Men without wives' : sexual arrangements in the early Portuguese expansion in West Africa / Ivana Elbl
  • Sex in Tudor London : abusing their bodies with each other / Carol Kazmierczak Manzione
  • Sexual rumours in English politics : the cases of Elizabeth I and James I / Robert Shephard
  • 'Masculine love' of the 'Princes of Sodom' 'practising the art of ganymede' at Henry III's court : the homosexuality of Henry III and his mignons in Pierre de L'Estoile's Memoires-journaux / Joseph Cady
  • Masculinities and homosexualities in French renaissance accounts of travel to the Middle East and North Africa / Guy Poirier
  • Bernardino of Siena versus the marriage debt / Dyan Elliot
  • Sex, money, and prostitution in medieval English culture / Ruth Mazo Karras
  • Wives and mothers : adultery, madness, and marital misery in Titian's Paduan frescoes / Rona Goffen
  • Freedom through renunciation? Women's voices, women's bodies, and the phallic order / Barrie Ruth Straus
  • Learning to write with Venus's pen : sexual regulation in Matthew of Vendôme's Ars versificatoria / Garrett P.J. Epp
  • Reading the dirty bits / Andrew Taylor
  • Did mystics have sex? / Nancy F. Partner.

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