| Description |
xiii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Sowing the field : Greek and Roman sexology / Helen King -- Sadism, masochism and history, or When is behaviour sado-masochistic? / Vern L. Bullough, Dwight Dixon and Joan Dixon -- Some traditional Indian views on menstruation and female sexuality / Julia Leslie -- Sexual knowledge in England, 1500-1750 / Patricia Crawford -- The transformation of Eve : women's bodies, medicine and culture in early modern England / Robert Martensen -- The literature of sexual advice before 1800 / Roy Porter |
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The eclipse of sexual selection theory / Simon J. Frankel -- Mammals, primatology and sexology / Londa Schiebinger -- Krafft-Ebing's psychological understanding of sexual behaviour / Renate Hauser -- The customs of the Magians : the problem of incest in historical societies / Michael Mitterauer -- Masculinity and the decadence / George L. Mosse -- "Not a stranger, a doctor" : medical men and sexual matters in the late nineteenth century / Angus Mclaren -- "May the doctor advise extramarital intercourse?" : medical debates on sexual abstinence in Germany, c. 1900 / Andreas Hill -- The development of sexology in the U S A in the early twentieth century / Vern L. Bullough -- Sigmund Freud and the sexologists : a second reading / Sander L. Gilman -- "The English have hot-water bottles" : the morganatic marriage between medicine and sexology in Britain since William Acton / Lesley A. Hall -- Tainted love / Richard Davenport-Hines and Christopher Phipps |
| Summary |
"Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science explores attempts to develop bodies of knowledge about sex from antiquity to the present day. Taking into account cognate sciences like zoology, anatomy, embryology and psychiatry, the volume analyses the shaping over the centuries of disciplines which came by 1900 to be called 'sexology'." "Various contributions explore the interfaces between 'high' and 'low' sexual teachings, and the connections and tensions between popular and empirical sexual knowledge on the one hand and overtly scientific formulations. A major concern of the book is to investigate the ideological functions - in terms of group, class and gender - of sexual science, especially when incorporated into systems of legal, medical and political power. Among sexual liberals and radicals it has long been an article of faith that sexual science, sexual liberation and sexual fulfillment will all advance hand-in-hand. With the modern backlash against permissiveness, and against the background of AIDS, such views are being challenged. Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science offers historical perspectives upon such questions."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Sexuality History |
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Sexuality History |
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Sexuality History |
| Notes |
"This book derives in part from a conference held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in the summer of 1991 and organized by Michael Neve and Christine Stevenson"--Acknowledgements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sex customs -- History -- Congresses.
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Sex customs -- History.
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Sexology -- History -- Congresses.
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Sexology -- History.
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
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Sexual Behavior -- history.
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Sex.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
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Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
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Teich, Mikuláš.
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Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
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| LC no. |
93028940 |
| ISBN |
0521444349 hardcover |
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0521448913 paper |
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9780521444347 hardcover |
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9780521448918 paper |
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