Premodern Sexualities

Premodern Sexualities
Title Premodern Sexualities PDF eBook
Author Louise Fradenburg
Publisher Routledge
Pages 301
Release 2013-12-02
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317795806

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Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating premodern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical discourses on sexuality while emphasizing problems in the historicist interpretation of early textualizations of sexuality. Premodern Sexualities clarifies the contributions literary studies can make--through its emphasis on reading strategies--to the historiography of sexuality.

Premodern Sexualities

Premodern Sexualities
Title Premodern Sexualities PDF eBook
Author Louise Fradenburg
Publisher Routledge
Pages 306
Release 2013-12-02
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317795792

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Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating premodern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical discourses on sexuality while emphasizing problems in the historicist interpretation of early textualizations of sexuality. Premodern Sexualities clarifies the contributions literary studies can make--through its emphasis on reading strategies--to the historiography of sexuality.

Sex Before Sexuality

Sex Before Sexuality
Title Sex Before Sexuality PDF eBook
Author Kim M. Phillips
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 236
Release 2013-04-24
Genre History
ISBN 0745637264

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Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the 'invention' of sexuality, erotic acts and desires were comprehended as species of sin, expressions of idealised love, courtship, and marriage, or components of intimacies between men or women, not as outworkings of an innermost self. With a focus on c. 1100–c. 1800, this book explores the shifting meanings, languages, and practices of western sex. It is the first study to combine the medieval and early modern to rethink this time of sex before sexuality, where same-sex and opposite-sex desire and eroticism bore but faint traces of what moderns came to call heterosexuality, homosexuality, lesbianism, and pornography. This volume aims to contribute to contemporary historical theory through paying attention to the particularity of premodern sexual cultures. Phillips and Reay argue that students of premodern sex will be blocked in their understanding if they use terms and concepts applicable to sexuality since the late nineteenth century, and modern commentators will never know their subject without a deeper comprehension of sex's history.

Premodern ruling sexualities

Premodern ruling sexualities
Title Premodern ruling sexualities PDF eBook
Author Gabrielle Storey
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 190
Release 2024-06-25
Genre History
ISBN 1526175835

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This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader understanding of their sexualities. It considers the methodologies and motivations of premodern writers and rulers when fashioning royal and elite sexualities and offers new analyses of an array of texts and artwork from across Europe and the wider Mediterranean.

Premodern Sexualities

Premodern Sexualities
Title Premodern Sexualities PDF eBook
Author L. O. Aranye Fradenburg
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 306
Release 1996
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780415912570

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Before Sexuality

Before Sexuality
Title Before Sexuality PDF eBook
Author David M. Halperin
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 548
Release 1990
Genre History
ISBN 0691002215

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A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the dreamer's sexual psychology. Evidence of such shifts in perspective is leading scholars to reconsider in a variety of creative ways the history of sexuality. In these fifteen original essays, eminent cultural historians and classicists not only discuss sex, but demonstrate how norms, practices, and even the very definitions of what counts as sexual activity have varied significantly over time. Ancient Greece offers abundant evidence for a radically different set of sexual standards and behaviors from ours. Sex in ancient Hellenic culture assumed a variety of social and political meanings, whereas the modern development of a sex-centered model of personality now leads us to view sex as the key to understanding the individual. Drawing on both the Anglo-American tradition of cultural anthropology and the French tradition of les sciences humaines, these essays explore the iconography, politics, ethics, poetry, and medical practices that made sex in ancient Greece not a paradise of liberation but an exotic locale hardly recognizable to visitors from the modern world. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Peter Brown, Anne Carson, Franoise Frontisi-Ducroux, Maud W. Gleason, Ann Ellis Hanson, Franois Lissarrague, Nicole Loraux, Maurice Olender, S.R.F. Price, James Redfield, Giulia Sissa, and Jean-Pierre Vernant.

The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe

The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe
Title The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe PDF eBook
Author Patricia Simons
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 345
Release 2011-10-13
Genre History
ISBN 1107004918

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A richly textured cultural history that investigates the characterization of the sex of adult male bodies before the Enlightenment.