LEADER 03202nam 2200457 450 001 9910677961103321 005 20210311154131.0 010 $a1-119-53582-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011611437 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6403718 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6403718 035 $a(OCoLC)1228037104 035 $a(BIP)076660717 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011611437 100 $a20210311d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 02$aA companion to global gender history /$fedited by Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks 205 $aSecond edition. 210 1$aHoboken, New Jersey ;$aWest Sussex, England :$cWiley Blackwell,$d[2021] 210 4$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (812 pages) 225 1 $aWiley Blackwell companions to world history 311 $a1-119-53580-8 330 8 $a"As a field of scholarly investigation, the history of sexuality is about as old as gender history in its modern, social constructionist form, dating from the 1970s and 1980s. Unlike gender history, whose roots reach back into a variety of disciplines and scholarly fields, the history of sexuality was long regarded as at best a catalogue of anthropological curiosities and at worst a pornographic amusement for social elites. In the 1880s medically informed writers such as Iwan Bloch, Paolo Mantegazza, and Richard von Krafft-Ebing tried to fit the spectrum of human sexual expression into an evolutionary scenario, but the foundations of the fields contemporary respectability were laid in the 1920s by British-trained social anthropologists such as Bronislaw Malinowski and the American Margaret Mead, who studied sexuality in social context and speculated on its relationship to socially ascribed gender roles. Though many of the early medical and anthropological works on sex and society as well as the first academic histories were devoted to the variety of sexual behavior and values in human history, many of their authors were also sex reformers who often used this information as weapons in the long cultural struggle with traditional Western sexual ideology. Gordon Rattray Taylor, whose Story of Societys Changing Attitudes to Sex (1954) was one of the first serious histories of the subject, was unapologetic about his aim of undermining the vestiges of Victorian sexual beliefs. The Western scholars who have studied the historical and global varieties of sexuality are still tempted to look at the subject through a critical and relativizing lens. Historicizing a topic that has been used both as a "natural" universal to command conformity and as a radical tactic of social rebellion has proven difficult indeed"-- 410 0$aWiley Blackwell companions to world history. 606 $aSex role$xHistory 615 0$aSex role$xHistory. 676 $a305.309 702 $aMeade$b Teresa A.$f1948- 702 $aWiesner-Hanks$b Merry E. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910677961103321 996 $aA Companion to Global Gender History$93069419 997 $aUNINA