A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women,sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Notes on Contributors - Preface; J.Peakman- Introduction part I:What is Sexual Perversion?; J.Peakman - Introduction part II: Sexual Perversion Pre-Sexology; J.Peakman - Staging Perversion: The Restoration's Sexual Allegory of (un) Civil War; B.McLaughlin - Objects, Desire, Identity and Eros in the Writings of Lord Hervey and Charlotte Charke; M.Morris - The Woman in Man's Clothes and the Pleasures of Delarivier Manley's ""New Cabal""; J.Frangos - The Hostile Gaze: Perverting the Female Form, 1688-1800; J.Skipp - Rape and the Construction of Female Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century; J.Mills - Morbid Parts: Gender, Violence and the Necro-Gaze; R.E.May - Nuns, Monks and Sexual Perversion in the Church; D.Peschier - Tropics of Sexuality: Sexual Excesses and Oriental Vices' in the British Raj; P.Murthy - ChineseSexuality and the Bound Foot; S.Adams
- ISBN: 978-0-230-55510-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha Publicación: 30/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés