English sexualities, 1700-1800
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English sexualities, 1700-1800
（Social history in perspective）
Macmillan Press , St. Martin's Press, 1997
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- : us : hbk
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Bibliography: p. 146-166
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: us : pbk ISBN 9780312165741
Description
The eighteenth century witnessed the birth of the first recognisably modern sexual identities. This book charts the development of those identities through the examination of pornography, sexual practice, medical belief, social policy, and the cultures of homosexuality, lesbianism, and heterosexually. It concludes that the century saw a sexual revolution in which sexual practice itself changed. From a culture in which mutual masturbation and mutable sexual categories were the norm, eighteenth-century England became a society increasingly concerned to foster penetrative and procreative sexual behaviour. In the process, newly harsh divisions between men and women were created and reinforced, and new models of both femininity and masculinity were created. This book charts a series of complex interrelationships between changes in language and practice, and suggests that men were increasingly encouraged to invest their masculinity in an exclusive desire for the opposite sex, while women were pushed towards a sexual identity in which motherhood came to dominate, and in which female lust was denigrated or denied. At the same time, new homosexual and lesbian identities were likewise created and denigrated.
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: uk : hbk ISBN 9780333618349
Description
This fascinating and wide-ranging analysis of gender and sexualities brings together the disparate literatures on demography, love and marriage, the body, homosexuality, lesbianism, and the regulation of sexuality. It makes available to both undergraduates and professionals these complex literatures in an accessible and readable form, and in the process changes our understanding of the nature of the origins and development of modern sexual roles and gender relations.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements - Introduction: Sex Before Discourse - The Public Cultures of Sex - 'The Surest Way of Wooing': Marriage Courtship and Sexuality - The Body, Medicine and Sexual Difference - Subcultures and Sodomites, the Development of Homosexuality - Tribades, Cross-Dressers and Romantic Friendship - Sexual Fear and the Regulation of Society - Conclusions - Further Reading - Index
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: uk : pbk ISBN 9780333618356
Description
This fascinating and wide-ranging analysis of gender and sexualities brings together the disparate literatures on demography, love and marriage, the body, homosexuality, lesbianism, and the regulation of sexuality. It makes available to both undergraduates and professionals these complex literatures in an accessible and readable form, and in the process changes our understanding of the nature of the origins and development of modern sexual roles and gender relations.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Sex Before Discourse.- The Public Cultures of Sex.- 'The Surest Way of Wooing': Marriage Courtship and Sexuality.- The Body, Medicine and Sexual Difference.- Subcultures and Sodomites, the Development of Homosexuality.- Tribades, Cross-Dressers and Romantic Friendship.- Sexual Fear and the Regulation of Society.- Conclusions.- Further Reading.- Index.
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