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

• Superior document: Genders and sexualities in history series
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Fisher, Kate.; Toulalan, Sarah.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Genders and sexualities in history.
• Physical Description: xii, 275 p. :; ill. (some col.).
• Other title: "That ere with age, his strength is utterly decay'd': Understanding the male body in Early Modern manhood /; Confusion embodied: Epistemologies of sex and race in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, and the Histoire naturelle /; The hermaphrodite, fecundity and military efficiency: Dangerous subjects in the emerging liberal order of Nineteenth-century Spain /; Touching bodies: Tact/ility in Nineteenth-century medical photographs and models /; 'Farewell to frocks,' 'Sex change' in interwar Britian: Newspaper stories, medical technology and modernity /; 'Perversity to match the curtains': Queering the life story with Grayson Perry /; "Unripe' bodies: Children and sex in Early Modern England /; Urge without desire? Confession manuals, moral casuistry, and the features of Concupiscentia between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth centuries /; On the unsteadiness of sexual truth in Eighteenth-century France /; 'Lay back, enjoy it and shout happy England': Sexual pleasure and marital duty in Britain, 1918-60 /; Eros and thanatos in European and American sexology /; Sadism as social violence: from Fin-de-Siecle degeneration to the critiques of Nazi sexuality in Frankfurt School thought /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 0230283683; 9780230283688; 9780230354128 (ebook)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan.