The book of oaths [[electronic resource] ] : and the severall forms thereof, both antient and modern. Faithfully collected out of sundry authentike books and records, not heretofore extant, compiled in one volume. Very useful for all persons whatsoever, especially those that undertake any office of magistracie or publique imployment in the Common-wealth. Whereunto is added a perfect table

• Record Nr.: UNISA996391893803316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Printed at London, : for W. Lee, M. Walbancke, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedle, 1649
• Descrizione fisica: [12], 96, 107-394, 405-416 p
• Soggetti: Oaths
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Compilership sometimes attributed to Richard Garnet.; Includes index.; Annotation on Thomason copy: "feb: 13 [illegible]".; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018

A companion to global gender history / / edited by Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910677961103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, New Jersey ; ; West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , [2021]; 2021
• ISBN: 1-119-53582-4
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (812 pages)
• Collana: Wiley Blackwell companions to world history
• Disciplina: 305.309
• Soggetti: Sex role - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: "As a field of scholarly investigation, the history of sexuality is about as old as gender history in its modern, social constructionist form, dating from the 1970s and 1980s. Unlike gender history, whose roots reach back into a variety of disciplines and scholarly fields, the history of sexuality was long regarded as at best a catalogue of anthropological curiosities and at worst a pornographic amusement for social elites. In the 1880s medically informed writers such as Iwan Bloch, Paolo Mantegazza, and Richard von Krafft-Ebing tried to fit the spectrum of human sexual expression into an evolutionary scenario, but the foundations of the fields contemporary respectability were laid in the 1920s by British-trained social anthropologists such as Bronislaw Malinowski and the American Margaret Mead, who studied sexuality in social context and speculated on its relationship to socially ascribed gender roles. Though many of the early medical and anthropological works on sex and society as well as the first academic histories were devoted to the variety of sexual behavior and values in human history, many of their authors were also sex reformers who often used this information as weapons in the long cultural struggle with traditional Western sexual ideology. Gordon Rattray Taylor, whose Story of Societys Changing Attitudes to Sex (1954) was one of the first serious histories of the subject, was unapologetic about his aim of ; undermining the vestiges of Victorian sexual beliefs. The Western scholars who have studied the historical and global varieties of sexuality are still tempted to look at the subject through a critical and relativizing lens. Historicizing a topic that has been used both as a "natural" universal to command conformity and as a radical tactic of social rebellion has proven difficult indeed"--