Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present / / edited by Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan

• Pubblicazione: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2011.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) : illustrations (some color)
• Disciplina: 155.3
• Soggetto topico: Human body; Mind and body; Sex (Psychology)
• Classificazione: HIS054000PSY016000SOC046000HIS000000
• Altri autori: FisherKate ToulalanSarah
• 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 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present
• ISBN: 1-280-58546-3; 9786613615299; 0-230-35412-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826225003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Genders and sexualities in history.