| Description |
xii, 275 p. : ill. (some col.). |
| Series |
Genders and sexualities in history series |
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Genders and sexualities in history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 Britian: 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Human body.
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Mind and body.
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Sex (Psychology)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Fisher, Kate.
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Toulalan, Sarah.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0230283683 |
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9780230283688 |
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9780230354128 (e-book) |
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