Sexual Perversions, 1670–1890

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Sexual Perversion in History: An Introduction

   • Julie Peakman

   Pages 1-49

3. Staging Perversion: The Restoration’s Sexual Allegory of (Un)civil War

   • Becky McLaughlin

   Pages 50-71

4. Objects of Desire, Identity and Eros in the Writings of Lord Hervey and Charlotte Charke

   • Marilyn Morris

   Pages 72-94

5. The Woman in Man’s Clothes and the Pleasures of Delarivier Manley’s ‘New Cabal’

   • Jennifer Frangos

   Pages 95-116

6. The Hostile Gaze: Perverting the Female Form, 1688–1800

   • Jenny Skipp

   Pages 117-139

7. Rape in Early Eighteenth-Century London: A Perversion ‘so very perplex’d’

   • Jennie Mills

   Pages 140-166

8. Morbid Parts: Gender, Seduction and the Necro-Gaze

   • Rebecca E. May

   Pages 167-201

9. Religious Sexual Perversion in Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Literature

   • Diana Peschier

   Pages 202-220

10. Tropics of Sexuality: Sexual Excesses and ‘Oriental Vices’ in the British Raj

    • Pashmina Murthy

    Pages 221-245

11. Chinese Sexuality and the Bound Foot

    • Sandra Adams

    Pages 246-275

12. Back Matter

    Pages 276-291

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A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history.

• female sex
• gender
• history
• identity
• masochism
• Perversion
• women
• sexual behaviour

How does one go about identifying sexual perversion, when defining sexual norms is difficult in itself? Julie Peakman's collection of essays offers some incisive answers to this question. Sexual Perversions provides a fascinating gallop through the strange sexual landscape of the past...there is enough food for thought here to satisfy everyone."- Hallie Rubenhold, TLS

• Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

  Julie Peakman

SANDRA ADAMS former Assistant Professor in English at Macau University, People's Republic of China JENNIFER FRANGOS is Assistant Professor of Eighteenth-century British literature, the University of Missouri, USA REBECCA E MAY Doctoral Candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA BECKY MCLAUGHLIN Associate Professor of English, the University of South Alabama, USA JENNIE MILLS Associate Lecturer, the Open University, UK MARILYN MORRIS Associate Professor of History, the University of North Texas, USA PASHMINA MURTHY Doctoral graduate in Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, USA JULIE PEAKMAN Honorary Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK JENNIE SKIPP Postgraduate Tutor, University of Leeds, UK

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