ISBN:
9780415472371
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (609 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Histories
Parallel Title:
Print version The Routledge History of Sex and the Body, 1500 to the Present
DDC:
306.709182/1
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Routledge History of Sex and the Body provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of sexuality from 1500 to the present day. The history of sex and the body is an expanding field in which vibrant debate on, for instance, the history of homosexuality, is developing. This book examines the current scholarship and looks towards future directions across the field. The volume is divided into fourteen thematic chapters, which are split into two chronological sections 1500 - 1750 and 1750 to present day. Focusing on the history of sexuality and the body in t
Description / Table of Contents:
THE ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF SEX AND THE BODY 1500 to the Present; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part IStudying the body and sexuality; 1 The good, the bad, and the textual: approaches to the study of the body and sexuality, 1500-1750; 2 Approaches to the history of sexuality since 1750; Part IISexual science and the medical understandings the body; 3 Medical understandings of the body, c. 1500-1750; 4 Medical understandings of the body: 1750 to the present; Part IIIExamining the body: science, technology and the exploration of the body
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Examining the body, c. 1500-17506 Examining the body since 1750; Part IVBody and mind: sexuality and identity; 7 From age to gender, c. 1500-1750: from the adolescent male to the adult effeminate body; 8 (De-)constructing sexual kinds since 1750; Part VClothing and nakedness; 9 From the cradle to the grave: clothing the early modern body; 10 Exposing, adorning, and dressing the body in the modern era; Part VIPornography and erotica; 11 Erotic representation, 1500-1750; 12 Looking at sex: pornography and erotica since 1750; Part VIIKnowledge and experience
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Knowledge and experience, c. 1500-175014 Knowledge and experience: from 1750 to the 1960s; Part VIIILife cycles; 15 'Age to great, or to little, doeth let conception': bodies, sex and the life cycle, 1500-1750; 16 Fairy tales of fertility: bodies, sex and the life cycle, c. 1750-2000; Part IXCourtship and marriage; 17 Courtship and marriage, c. 1500-1750; 18 Marriage and companionate ideals since 1750; Part XReproduction; 19 Reproduction, c. 1500-1750; 20 Reproduction since 1750; Part XIProstitution; 21 The body of the prostitute: medieval to modern; 22 Prostitution from 1800
Description / Table of Contents:
Part XIISexual violence and rape23 Sexual violence and rape in Europe, 1500-1750; 24 Sexual violence since 1750; Part XIIISexual disease; 25 'The venereal disease', 1500-1800; 26 Sexual diseases since 1750; Part XIVBodies, sex and race; 27 Western encounters with sex and bodies in non-European cultures, 1500-1750; 28 'The roots that clutch': bodies, sex and race since 1750; Afterword: On 'compulsory sexuality', sexualization, and history; Select bibliography; Index
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