Screen LibraryBodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present
An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws attention to continuities in thinking about bodies and sex: concept may have changed, but hey nevertheless...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Genders and sexualities in history
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230354128 |
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An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws attention to continuities in thinking about bodies and sex: concept may have changed, but hey nevertheless draw on older ideas and language. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230283688, 2011. |
| Carrier Form: | 288 p. |
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9780230283688 9780230354128 : 0230354122 : |
| CLC: | B84-065 |
| Contents: | List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction-- S.Toulalan PART I: BODIES AND DIFFERENCE 'That ere with Age, his Strength is Utterly Decay'd': Understanding the Male Body in Early Modern Manhood-- J.Jordan Confusion Embodied: Epistemologies of Sex and Race in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748-9) and the Histoire Naturelle (1749-1804)-- A.Wells The Hermaphrodite, Fecundity and Military Efficiency: Dangerous Subjects in the Emerging Liberal order of Nineteenth-Century Spain-- R.Cleminson & F.Vazquez Garcia Touching Bodies: Tact/ility in Nineteenth-century Medical Photogra |