Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science - Brossura

Porter, Roy; Teich, Mikulas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521448913 ISBN 13: 9780521448918

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Riassunto

This volume is about those who have investigated sex from antiquity to the present day.

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Descrizione del libro

This volume examines the development of sexual science, from antiquity to modern, post-Freudian, post-Kinseyan sexology. Primarily historical in angle, the essays explore the relationship between common, popular sexual lore and scientific understanding.

Contenuti

Part I. Sexology Before the Era of Freud: 1. Sowing the field: Greek and Roman sexology Helen King; 2. Sadism, masochism and history, or when is behaviour sado-masochistic? Vern L. Bullough; 3. Some traditional Indian views on menstruation and female sexuality Julia Leslie; 4. Sexual knowledge in England, 1500–1750 Patricia Crawford; 5. The transformation of Eve: women's bodies, medicine and culture in early modern England Robert Martensen; 6. The literature of sexual advice before 1800 Roy Porter; 7. The eclipse of sexual selection theory Simon J. Frankel; 8. Mammals, primatology and sexology Londa Schiebinger; 9. Krafft-Ebbing's psychological understanding of sexual behaviour Renate Hauser; Part II. Sexuality Since Freud: 10. The customs of the Magians: the problems of incest in historical societies Michael Mitterauer; 11. Masculinity and the decadence George L. Mosse; 12. 'Not a stranger, a doctor': medical men and sexual matters in the late nineteenth century Angus McLaren; 13. 'May the doctor advise extra-marital intercourse?': medical debates on sexual abstinence in Germany, c. 1900 Andreas Hill; 14. The development of sexology in the USA in the twentieth century Vern L. Bullough; 15. Sigmund Freud and the sexologists: a second reading Sander L. Gilman; 16. 'The English have hot-water bottles': the morganatic marriage of medicine and sexology in Britain since William Acton Lesley A. Hall; 17. Tainted love Richard Davenport-Hines and Christopher Phipps.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521448913
• ISBN 13: 9780521448918
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 422
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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