Sex and punishment : four thousand years of judging desire
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Sex and punishment : four thousand years of judging desire
Westbourne Press, 2013, c2012
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"First published in Great Britain in 2012 by the Westbourne Press"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-461) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex. From the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde for `gross indecency' in 1895, Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law.
The cast of Sex and Punishment is as varied as the forms taken by human desire itself: royal mistresses, gay charioteers, medieval transvestites, lonely goat-lovers, prostitutes of all stripes and London rent boys. Each of them had forbidden sex, and each was judged - and justice, as Berkowitz shows - rarely had anything to do with it.
目次
- Contents: Introduction
- One Channeling the Urge: The First Sex Laws
- Two Honor among (Mostly) Men: Cases from Ancient Greece
- Three Imperial Bedrooms: Sex and the State in Ancient Rome
- Four The Middle Ages: A Crowd Condemned
- Five Groping toward Modernity: The Early Modern Period, 1500 - 1700
- Six The New World of Sexual Opportunity
- Seven The Eighteenth Century: Revelation and Revolution
- Eight The Nineteenth Century: Human Nature on Trial
- Notes Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Photo credits
- Index
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