ISBN:
9780191636066
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (363 pages)
Series Statement:
Classical Presences Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Sex - Social aspects - History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In this ground-breaking and interdisciplinary collection, leading scholars show that claims about the past have been crucial in articulating sexual morals, driving political, legal, and social change, shaping individual identities, and constructing and grounding knowledge about sex.
Abstract:
Cover -- Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- General Introduction -- OVERVIEW OF AIMS -- SCOPE OF THE CON -- FUNCTIONS OF THE PAST -- METHODOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS -- KEY INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS -- INTERDISCIPLINARITY -- AUTHENTICITY AND THE POWER OF THE PAST -- 1: Queer Desires and Classicizing Strategies of Resistance -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SCIENCE OF SEX -- THE AESTHETICS OF LOVE -- 2: Queering Display: LGBT History and the Ancient World -- THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE FROM ANTIQUITY IN MUSEUMS -- LGBT HISTORY MONTH AND ANTIQUITY -- CELEBRITY OBJECTS AND PEOPLE FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 3: Anachronistic Readings of Eighteenth century Libertinage in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century France -- 4: Bestiality in the Bay of Naples: The Herculaneum Pan and Goat Statue -- INTERPRETATIVE POLITICS -- MAKING THE PAST SIGNIFICANT -- DRAWING CONNECTIONS WITH OTHER MATERIAL -- THEORETICAL CONCLUSIONS -- 5: Navigating the Past: Sexuality, Race, and the Uses of the Primitive in Magnus Hirschfeld's The World Journey of a Sexologist -- NEGOTIATING SAMENESS AND DIFFERENCE: HIRSCHFELD AND THE USES OF SEXUAL ETHNOLOGY -- SEXUALITY, RACE, AND THE TIME OF THE PRIMITIVE -- PHALLIC CULTS, REPRESSION, AND THE 'DISCOVERY' OF THE PRIMITIVE -- CONCLUSION -- 6: Hybridizing Past, Present, and Future: Reflections on the 'Sexology' of R. F. Burton -- 7: The Victorians: Our Others, Our Selves? -- VISIONS OF THE 'VICTORIAN' -- WHEN WAS 'VICTORIAN'? -- CRITIQUING VICTORIANISM -- VICTORIANS DURING THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION -- RE-EVALUATING THE VICTORIANS -- THE VICTORIAN KALEIDOSCOPE -- 8: Scholarly Visions of Prehistoric Sexuality, 1859-1900 -- INSTITUTIONAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS -- GENDER RELATIONS IN BODIES AND ARTEFACTS.
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