Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present / edited by Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan.
| Other author | Fisher, Kate. |
| Other author | Toulalan, Sarah. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Description | xii, 275 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Genders and sexualities in history series Genders and sexualities in history. ^A798088 |
| Contents | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011029566 |
| ISBN | 9780230283688 |
| ISBN | 0230283683 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |