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Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Kate Fisher

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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  2. Sarah Toulalan

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Sarah Toulalan
      Pages 1-24

  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

    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

    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

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

      • Elizabeth Stephens
      Pages 87-101

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

      • Alison Oram
      Pages 102-117

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

      • Margaretta Jolly
      Pages 118-128

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 236-275
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Exeter, UK

    Kate Fisher, Sarah Toulalan

About the editors

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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