Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Sarah Toulalan

      Pages 1-24

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3. Bodies and Difference

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. ‘That ere with Age, his strength Is utterly decay’d’: Understanding the Male Body in Early Modern Manhood

      • Jennifer Jordan

      Pages 27-48

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   3. Confusion Embodied: Epistemologies of Sex and Race in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748–49) and the Histoire naturelle (1749–1804)

      • Andrew Wells

      Pages 49-69

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   4. The Hermaphrodite, Fecundity and Military Efficiency: Dangerous Subjects in the Emerging Liberal Order of Nineteenth-Century Spain

      • Richard Cleminson, Francisco Vázquez García

      Pages 70-86

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   5. Touching Bodies: Tact/ility in Nineteenth-Century Medical Photographs and Models

      • Elizabeth Stephens

      Pages 87-101

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   6. ‘Farewell to Frocks’ — ‘Sex Change’ in Interwar Britain: Newspaper Stories, Medical Technology and Modernity

      • Alison Oram

      Pages 102-117

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   7. ‘Perversity to match the curtains’: Queering the Life Story with Grayson Perry

      • Margaretta Jolly

      Pages 118-128

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4. Bodies, Sex and Desire

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. ‘Unripe’ Bodies: Children and Sex in Early Modern England

      • Sarah Toulalan

      Pages 131-150

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   3. Urge without Desire? Confession Manuals, Moral Casuistry, and the Features of Concupiscentia between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Centuries

      • Fernanda Alfieri

      Pages 151-167

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   4. On the Unsteadiness of Sexual Truth in Eighteenth-Century France

      • Peter Cryle

      Pages 168-180

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   5. ‘Lay back, enjoy it and shout happy England’: Sexual Pleasure and Marital Duty in Britain, 1918–60

      • Kate Fisher

      Pages 181-200

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   6. Eros and Thanatos in European and American Sexology

      • Lisa Downing

      Pages 201-220

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   7. Sadism as Social Violence: From Fin-de-Siècle Degeneration to the Critiques of Nazi Sexuality in Frankfurt School Thought

      • Alison Moore

      Pages 221-235

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5. Back Matter

   Pages 236-275

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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.

• Britain
• children
• diagnosis
• England
• Europe
• France
• Renaissance
• Spain
• sexual behaviour

• University of Exeter, UK

  Kate Fisher, Sarah Toulalan

FERNANDA ALFIERI Researcher, the Bruno Kessler Foundation, Centre for Italo-Germanic Studies, Trento, Italy PETER CRYLE Professor of French and Director of the Centre for the History of European Discourses, the University of Queensland, Australia LISA DOWNING Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality and Director of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe (CISSGE), the University of Exeter, UK KATE FISHER Senior Lecturer in History, the University of Exeter, UK FRANCISCO VÁZQUEZ GARCÍA Professor of Philosophy, the University of Cadiz, Spain MARGARETTA JOLLY Director, the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research, the University of Sussex, UK JENNIFER JORDAN Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the Department of History, University of Plymouth, UK ALISON MOORE Postdoctoral Researcher, the University of Queensland, Australia ALISON ORAM Professor in Social and Cultural History, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK ELIZABETH STEPHENS ARC Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for the History of European Discourses, the University of Queensland, Australia SARAH TOULALAN Senior Lecturer in Medical History, the University of Exeter, UK ANDREW WELLS Teaching Fellow in the History of Ideas, the University of Edinburgh, UK

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