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Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present
Title:
Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present
Author:
Fisher, Kate.
Publication Information:
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description:
xii, 275 p. : ill. (some col.).
Series:
Genders and sexualities in history series

Genders and sexualities in history.
Contents:
"That ere with age, his strength is utterly decay'd': Understanding the male body in Early Modern manhood / Confusion embodied: Epistemologies of sex and race in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, and the Histoire naturelle / The hermaphrodite, fecundity and military efficiency: Dangerous subjects in the emerging liberal order of Nineteenth-century Spain / Touching bodies: Tact/ility in Nineteenth-century medical photographs and models / 'Farewell to frocks,' 'Sex change' in interwar Britian: Newspaper stories, medical technology and modernity / 'Perversity to match the curtains': Queering the life story with Grayson Perry / "Unripe' bodies: Children and sex in Early Modern England / Urge without desire? Confession manuals, moral casuistry, and the features of Concupiscentia between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth centuries / On the unsteadiness of sexual truth in Eighteenth-century France / 'Lay back, enjoy it and shout happy England': Sexual pleasure and marital duty in Britain, 1918-60 / Eros and thanatos in European and American sexology / Sadism as social violence: from Fin-de-Siecle degeneration to the critiques of Nazi sexuality in Frankfurt School thought
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