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Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 ‘That ere with Age, his strength Is utterly decay’d’: Understanding the Male Body in Early Modern Manhood
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    Chapter 3 Confusion Embodied: Epistemologies of Sex and Race in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748–49) and the Histoire naturelle (1749–1804)
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    Chapter 4 The Hermaphrodite, Fecundity and Military Efficiency: Dangerous Subjects in the Emerging Liberal Order of Nineteenth-Century Spain
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    Chapter 5 Touching Bodies: Tact/ility in Nineteenth-Century Medical Photographs and Models
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    Chapter 6 ‘Farewell to Frocks’ — ‘Sex Change’ in Interwar Britain: Newspaper Stories, Medical Technology and Modernity
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    Chapter 7 ‘Perversity to match the curtains’: Queering the Life Story with Grayson Perry
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    Chapter 8 ‘Unripe’ Bodies: Children and Sex in Early Modern England
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    Chapter 9 Urge without Desire? Confession Manuals, Moral Casuistry, and the Features of Concupiscentia between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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    Chapter 10 On the Unsteadiness of Sexual Truth in Eighteenth-Century France
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    Chapter 11 ‘Lay back, enjoy it and shout happy England’: Sexual Pleasure and Marital Duty in Britain, 1918–60
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    Chapter 12 Eros and Thanatos in European and American Sexology
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    Chapter 13 Sadism as Social Violence: From Fin-de-Siècle Degeneration to the Critiques of Nazi Sexuality in Frankfurt School Thought
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Title
Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, January 2011
DOI 10.1057/9780230354128
ISBNs
978-1-349-32900-7, 978-0-230-35412-8, 978-0-230-28368-8
Authors

Fisher, Kate, Toulalan, Sarah, Kate Fisher, Sarah Toulalan, Fu, Hualing, Petersen, Carole, Young, Simon N. M

Editors

Kate Fisher, Sarah Toulalan

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Country Count As %
Unknown 12 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 25%
Researcher 2 17%
Student > Bachelor 2 17%
Professor 2 17%
Other 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 1 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 6 50%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 8%
Philosophy 1 8%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 8%
Social Sciences 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 1 8%