| Description |
vii, 468 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Kim M. Phillips and Barry Reay -- 1. Sexuality and History Revisited / Jeffrey Weeks -- 2. Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality / David M. Halperin -- 3. Bodies That Don't Matter: Heterosexuality before Heterosexuality in Gottfried's Tristan / James A. Schultz -- 4. "Ut cum muliere": A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London / Ruth Mazo Karras and David Lorenzo Boyd -- 5. Gender and Generation: Representing Reproduction in Early Modern England / Mary Fissell -- 6. Bodies and Minds: Sexuality and Renunciation in Early Christianity / Peter Brown -- 7. Family Life and the Regulation of Deviance / John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman -- 8. Sexuality in California's Franciscan Missions: Cultural Perceptions and Historical Realities / Albert Hurtado -- 9. Redefining Sex in Eighteenth-Century England / Tim Hitchcock -- 10. Sex for Thought / Robert Darnton -- 11. Parasexuality and Glamour: The Victorian Barmaid as Cultural Prototype / Peter Bailey -- 12. Anne Lister's Construction of Lesbian Identity / Anna Clark -- 13. Richard von Krafft-Ebing's "Step-Children of Nature": Psychiatry and the Making of Homosexual Identity / Harry Oosterhuis -- 14. Trade, Wolves, and the Boundaries of Normal Manhood / George Chauncey -- 15. Toward a "Value-Free" Science of Sex: The Kinsey Reports / Janice M. Irvine -- 16. Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography / Carole S. Vance -- 17. AIDS and the Discursive Construction of Homosexuality / Steven Seidman -- 18. Regulated Passions: The Invention of Inhibited Sexual Desire and Sexual Addiction / Janice M. Irvine -- 19. Hottentot 2000: Jennifer Lopez and Her Butt / Magdalena Barrera -- 20. Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex without Women or Men / C. Jacob Hale -- 21. The Game Girls of VNS Matrix: Challenging Gendered Identities in Cyberspace / Kay Schaffer.000000000000 p |
| Summary |
Sexualities in History is a multidisciplinary collection of key articles by prominent scholars that looks at the constantly shifting meanings, languages, and practices of western sexualities. Offering a sustained exploration of sex as a social, cultural, and historical construct, this reader covers diverse topics like the construction of the body; reproduction and marriage; the impact of AIDs; sex in colonial contexts; postmodern sexual transgressions, and the discourse of pornography. [publisher] |
| Notes |
New Zealand editors |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sex customs -- History.
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Sex -- History.
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Sex and history.
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Sexuality -- history.
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Sexual Behavior -- history.
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| Author |
Reay, Barry.
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Phillips, Kim M.
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| LC no. |
2001019346 |
| ISBN |
0415929342 |
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0415929350 paperback |
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