1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000689650403321

Autore

GLC

Titolo

An introduction to housing layout / a GLC study

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : The Architectural Press

New York : Nichols Publishing Company, 1978

Descrizione fisica

183 p. : ill. ; 30 cm

Locazione

DINST

DARPU

FARBC

Collocazione

01 FB 1107

RGT 1977

ARCH C 255

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960653603321

Titolo

Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present / / by Kate Fisher, Sarah Toulalan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011

ISBN

9786613615299

9781280585463

1280585463

9780230354128

0230354122

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9487

Classificazione

HIS054000PSY016000SOC046000HIS000000

Altri autori (Persone)

FisherKate

ToulalanSarah

Disciplina

155.3

Soggetti

Civilization - History

Science - History

Social history

Europe - History - 1492-

History, Modern

Sex (Psychology)

Cultural History

History of Science

Social History

History of Early Modern Europe

Modern History

Psychology of Gender and Sexuality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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 Britain: 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 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.