Description
Sex Before Sexuality
A Premodern History
Themes in History Series
Authors: Phillips Kim M., Reay Barry
Language: EnglishPublication date: 09-2011
200 p. · 15.2x22.6 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 09-2011
200 p. · 16x23.6 cm · Hardback
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This volume aims to contribute to contemporary historical theory through paying attention to the particularity of premodern sexual cultures. Phillips and Reay argue that students of premodern sex will be blocked in their understanding if they use terms and concepts applicable to sexuality since the late nineteenth century, and modern commentators will never know their subject without a deeper comprehension of sex's history.
List of Images.
Introduction: Sex Before Sexuality.
1. Sin.
2. Before Heterosexuality.
3. Between Men.
4. Between Women.
5. Before Pornography.
Epilogue: Sex at Sea?
Barry Reay is professor of history at the University of Auckland.