Sexualities in History: A Reader / Edition 1

by Kim M. Phillips, Barry Reay

Overview

Over the past twenty years, historians have overturned nearly everything we once took for granted about human sexuality. Gender, sexual orientation, "deviance," and even the biology of sex have been unmasked for what they are-historically specific, culturally contested, and above all, unstable constructions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415929356
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/07/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	476
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kim M. Phillips, Barry Reay

Table of Contents

Introduction Kim M. Phillips and Barry Reay Part 1. Rethinking Sex Sexuality and History Revisted Jeffrey Weeks Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality David M. Halperin Part 2 Sexing the Body Bodies That Don't Matter: Heterosexuality Before Heterosexulaity in Gottfried's Tristan James A. Schultz Ut cum muliere: A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London Ruth Mazo Karras and David Lorenzo Boyd Gender and Generation:Representing Reproduction in Early Modern England Mary Fissell Part 3. Controlling Sex Bodies and Minds: Sexuality and Renunciation in Early Christianity Peter Brown Family Life anf Regualtion of Deviance John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman Sexuality in California's Franciscan Missions: Cultural Perceptions and Historical Realities Albert Hurtado Part 4. Redefining Sex Redefining Sex in Eighteenth-Century Tim Hitchcock Sex for Thought Robert Darnton Parasexuality and Glamour: The Victorian Barmaid as Cultural Prototype Peter Bailey Part 5. Constructing Sex Anne Lister's Construction of Lesbian Identity Anna Clark Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Step-Children of Nature: Psychiatry and the Making of Homosexual Identity Harry Oosterhuis Trade, Wolves, and the Boundaries of Normal Manhood George Chauncy Toward a Value-Free Science of Sex: The Kinsey Reports Janice M. Irvine Part 6. Punishing Sex Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography Carole S. Vance AIDS anf the Discursive Construction of Homosexuality Steven Seidman Regualated Passions: The Invention of Inhibited Sexual Desire and Sexual Addiction Janice M. Irvine Hottentot 2000: Jennider Lopez and Her Butt Magdalena Barrera Part 7. Unsettling Sex Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex Without Men or Women C. Jacob Hale The Game Girl of VNS Matrix: Challenging Gendered Identities in Cyberspace Kay Schaffer Notes on Contributors Permissions Acknowledgments Index England

Editorial Reviews

"Sexualities in History's brilliant chapters reveal that assumptions about sex are always provisional though no less consequential or far-reaching for that reason. Looking back in time and across at other cultures, this important volume successfully controverts, hopefully once and for all, the inane notion that sexuality is a narrow site of inquiry." — Jennifer Terry, author of An American Obsession
"Sex is, perhaps, the least interesting aspect of the history of sexuality. As this collection makes clear, sexual behaviors and mentalities are embedded in systems of power and that connection provides the common thread which Barry Reay and Kim Phillips have used to draw together a diverse and suggestive collection of writings." — David Levine, author of At the Dawn of Modernity
"From the Olympian heights of senior scholars on antiquity and the enlightenment to the brilliant interventions of junior scholars on pop culture, from well-known essays on Foucault and pornography to new works on everything from transvestite prostitutes in the 14th century England to gendered identities in cyberspace, Sexualities in History is rich and catholic enough to seduce both the general reader and the lucky student who is assigned it in a course." — Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex
"Phillips and Reay present a splendid collection of essays that moves from antiquity to cyberspace. This is an essential volume for anyone interested in understanding the contexts and complexities of human sexualities." — Jacqueline Murray, co-editor of Desire and Discipline
"Sex is, perhaps, the least interesting aspect of the history of sexuality. As this collection makes clear, sexual behaviors and mentalities are embedded in systems of power and that connection provides the common thread which Barry Reay and Kim Phillips have used to draw together a diverse and suggestive collection of writings. Sexualities in History provides a marvelous introduction to a subject that is as strangely complex as we are." — David Levine, OISE/University of Toronto
"This will be the standard account for...years after it is published...I am confident that Sexualities in History will have a long and fruitful life in and out of the classroom." — Timothy Gilfoyle, Loyola University

From the Publisher

Sex is, perhaps, the least interesting aspect of the history of sexuality. As this collection makes clear, sexual behaviors and mentalities are embedded in systems of power and that connection provides the common thread which Barry Reay and Kim Phillips have used to draw together a diverse and suggestive collection of writings. Sexualities in History provides a marvelous introduction to a subject that is as strangely complex as we are.

David Levine

This will be the standard account for. . .years after it is published. . . .I am confident that Sexualities in History will have a long and fruitful life in and out of the classroom.

Timothy Gilfoyle