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Titolo |
Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present / / edited by Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-58546-3 |
9786613615299 |
0-230-35412-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2011.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Collana |
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Genders and sexualities in history series |
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Classificazione |
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HIS054000PSY016000SOC046000HIS000000 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human body |
Mind and body |
Sex (Psychology) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"That ere with age, his strength is utterly decay'd': Understanding the male body in Early Modern manhood / Jennifer Jordan -- Confusion embodied: Epistemologies of sex and race in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, and the Histoire naturelle / Andrew Wells -- The hermaphrodite, fecundity and military efficiency: Dangerous subjects in the emerging liberal order of Nineteenth-century Spain / Richard Cleminson and Francisco 'Vazquez Garcia -- Touching bodies: Tact/ility in Nineteenth-century medical photographs and models / Elizabeth Stephens -- 'Farewell to frocks,' 'Sex change' in interwar Britian: Newspaper stories, medical technology and modernity / Alison Oram -- 'Perversity to match the curtains': Queering the life story with Grayson Perry / Margaretta Jolly -- "Unripe' bodies: Children and sex in Early Modern England / Sarah Toulalan -- Urge without desire? Confession manuals, moral casuistry, and the features of Concupiscentia between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth centuries / Fernanda Alfieri -- On the unsteadiness of sexual truth in Eighteenth-century France / Peter Cryle -- 'Lay back, enjoy it and shout happy |
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England': Sexual pleasure and marital duty in Britain, 1918-60 / Kate Fisher -- Eros and thanatos in European and American sexology / Lisa Downing -- Sadism as social violence: from Fin-de-Siecle degeneration to the critiques of Nazi sexuality in Frankfurt School thought / Alison Moore. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws attention to continuities in thinking about bodies and sex: concept may have changed, but hey nevertheless draw on older ideas and language. |
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