The sex of men in premodern Europe : a cultural history
著者
書誌事項
The sex of men in premodern Europe : a cultural history
（Cambridge social and cultural histories / series editors, Margot C.Finn, Colin Jones, Keith Wrightson）
Cambridge University Press, 2013
- : pbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309) and index
"First published 2011. First paperback edition 2013"--T.p. verso
内容説明・目次
内容説明
How were male bodies viewed before the Enlightenment? And what does this reveal about attitudes towards sex and gender in premodern Europe? This richly textured cultural history investigates the characterization of the sex of adult male bodies from ancient Greece to the seventeenth century. Before the modern focus on the phallic, penetrative qualities of male anatomy, Patricia Simons finds that men's bodies were considered in terms of their active physiological characteristics, in relation to semen, testicles and what was considered innately masculine heat. Re-orienting attention from an anatomical to a physiological focus, and from fertility to pleasure, Simons argues that women's sexual agency was perceived in terms of active reception of the valuable male seed. This provocative, compelling study draws on visual, material and textual evidence to elucidate a broad range of material, from medical learning, high art and literary metaphors to obscene badges, codpieces and pictorial or oral jokes.
目次
- Introduction
- Part I. Witnessing Men's Bodies: Paradigms Old and New: 1. How to be a man in early modern Europe
- 2. The phallus: history and humour
- 3. Material culture in late medieval and early modern Europe
- Part II. Projecting Male Sex: Models and Metaphors: 4. Physiology and anatomy
- 5. Value and expenditure
- 6. Pleasure and the unequal two-seed theory
- 7. Fertility and beyond
- 8. Implements in action
- Conclusion.
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