| Descript |
1 online resource (294 p.) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I: Bodies and Difference -- 1 'That ere with Age, his strength Is utterly decay'd': Understanding the Male Body in Early Modern Manhood -- 2 Confusion Embodied: Epistemologies of Sex and Race in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748-49) and the Histoire naturelle (1749-1804) -- 3 The Hermaphrodite, Fecundity and Military Efficiency: Dangerous Subjects in the Emerging Liberal Order of Nineteenth-Century Spain -- 4 Touching Bodies: Tact/ility in Nineteenth-Century Medical Photographs and Models |
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5 'Farewell to Frocks' - 'Sex Change' in Interwar Britain: Newspaper Stories, Medical Technology and Modernity -- 6 'Perversity to match the curtains': Queering the Life Story with Grayson Perry -- Part II: Bodies, Sex and Desire -- 7 'Unripe' Bodies: Children and Sex in Early Modern England -- 8 Urge without Desire? Confession Manuals, Moral Casuistry, and the Features of Concupiscentia between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 9 On the Unsteadiness of Sexual Truth in Eighteenth-Century France |
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10 'Lay back, enjoy it and shout happy England': Sexual Pleasure and Marital Duty in Britain, 1918-60 -- 11 Eros and Thanatos in European and American Sexology -- 12 Sadism as Social Violence: From Fin-de-Siècle Degeneration to the Critiques of Nazi Sexuality in Frankfurt School Thought -- Bibliography -- Index |
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200 annual accesses. |
| ISBN |
9780230354128 |
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