Sexualities in History: A Reader

by Phillips,Kim M.

• ISBN13: 9780415929356
• ISBN10: 0415929350
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-11-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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. Sexualities in Historyunites a sprawling body of scholarship into the first multidisciplinary collection of key readings on the history of western sexuality. Bringing together landmark work by Robert Darnton, George Chauncey, John D'Emilio, Estelle Freedman and others, this anthology offers a wide breadth of topics like ancient sexualities, sex and Christianity, the construction of the body, reproduction and marriage, sex in colonial contexts, the impact of AIDS, postmodern sexual transgressions, and the discourse of pornography. A sustained, insightful exploration of sex as a social, cultural, and historical construct, this is an indispensable resource for students goingbeyond the surface of human sexuality.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(26)
Kim M. Phillips
Barry Reay
PART 1 RETHINKING SEX
Sexuality and History Revisited	27	(15)
Jeffrey Weeks
Forgetting Foucault	42	(29)
Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality
David M. Halperin
PART 2 SEXING THE BODY
Bodies That Don't Matter	71	(19)
Heterosexuality before Heterosexuality in Gottfried's Tristan
James A. Schultz
``Ut cum muliere''	90	(15)
A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London
Ruth Mazo Karras
David Lorenzo Boyd
Gender and Generation	105	(24)
Representing Reproduction in Early Modern England
Mary Fissell
PART 3 CONTROLLING SEX
Bodies and Minds	129	(12)
Sexuality and Renunciation in Early Christianity
Peter Brown
Family Life and the Regulation of Deviance	141	(25)
John D'Emilio
Estelle B. Freedman
Sexuality in California's Franciscan Missions	166	(19)
Cultural Perceptions and Historical Realities
Albert Hurtado
PART 4 REDEFINING SEX
Redefining Sex in Eighteenth-Century England	185	(18)
Tim Hitchcock
Sex for Thought	203	(19)
Robert Darnton
Parasexuality and Glamour	222	(25)
The Victorian Barmaid as Cultural Prototype
Peter Bailey
PART 5 CONSTRUCTING SEX
Anne Lister's Construction of Lesbian Identity	247	(24)
Anna Clark
Richard von Krafft-Ebing's ``Step-Children of Nature''	271	(22)
Psychiatry and the Making of Homosexual Identity
Harry Oosterhuis
Trade, Wolves, and the Boundaries of Normal Manhood	293	(34)
George Chauncey
Toward a ``Value-Free'' Science of Sex	327	(32)
The Kinsey Reports
Janice M. Irvine
PART 6 PUNISHING SEX
Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography	359	(16)
Carole S. Vance
AIDS and the Discursive Construction of Homosexuality	375	(11)
Steven Seidman
Regulated Passions	386	(21)
The Invention of Inhibited Sexual Desire and Sexual Addiction
Janice M. Irvine
Hottentot 2000	407	(14)
Jennifer Lopez and Her Butt
MagDalena Barrera
PART 7 UNSETTLING SEX
Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies	421	(13)
How to Have Sex without Women or Men
C. Jacob Hale
The Game Girls of VNS Matrix	434	(19)
Challenging Gendered Identities in Cyberspace
Kay Schaffer
Notes on the Contributors	453	(4)
Permissions Acknowledgments	457	(4)
Index	461