Sex Before Sexuality
A Premodern History
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Reay, Barry
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-2523-2
- EAN: 9780745625232
- Produktnummer: 11211115
- Verlag: Polity Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Masse: H23.2 cm x B17.5 cm x D1.6 cm 326 g
- Gewicht: 326
- Sonstiges: Further/Higher Education
Über den Autor
Kim Phillips is senior lecturer in history at the University of Auckland.Barry Reay is professor of history at the University of Auckland.
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