Sex before sexuality : a premodern history

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Sex before sexuality : a premodern history

Kim M. Phillips and Barry Reay

(Themes in history)

Polity, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-193) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the 'invention' of sexuality, erotic acts and desires were comprehended as species of sin, expressions of idealised love, courtship, and marriage, or components of intimacies between men or women, not as outworkings of an innermost self. With a focus on c. 1100-c. 1800, this book explores the shifting meanings, languages, and practices of western sex. It is the first study to combine the medieval and early modern to rethink this time of sex before sexuality, where same-sex and opposite-sex desire and eroticism bore but faint traces of what moderns came to call heterosexuality, homosexuality, lesbianism, and pornography. This volume aims to contribute to contemporary historical theory through paying attention to the particularity of premodern sexual cultures. Phillips and Reay argue that students of premodern sex will be blocked in their understanding if they use terms and concepts applicable to sexuality since the late nineteenth century, and modern commentators will never know their subject without a deeper comprehension of sex's history.

目次

Acknowledgements. List of Images. Introduction: Sex Before Sexuality. 1. Sin. 2. Before Heterosexuality. 3. Between Men. 4. Between Women. 5. Before Pornography. Epilogue: Sex at Sea?

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB06673242
  • ISBN
    • 9780745625225
    • 9780745625232
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge
  • ページ数/冊数
    200 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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