Sexual underworlds of the Enlightenment
An exploration of the unknown dimensions of Enlightenment sexuality, which describes lesbianism and homosexuality in their historical contexts, public prurience and fascination with the sexually bizarre, pornography, prostitution and the victims of sexual malpractices and repression.
Print Book, English, ©1987
Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, ©1987
History
x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780719019616, 9780719024405, 9780807817827, 0719019613, 0719024404, 0807817821
19521326
From lascivious erudition to the history of mentalities / Théodore Tarczylo
The discourse on sex, or sex as discourse / Peter Wagner
Modern prostitution and gender in Fanny Hill / Randolph Trumbach
Imagination, pregnant women, and monsters in eighteenth-century England and France / Paul-Gabriel Boucé
The sorrows of Priapus / G.S. Rousseau
The culture of travesty / Terry Castle
Vulnerability and the age of female consent / Antony E. Simpson
A touch of danger / Roy Porter
Passing women / Lynne Friedli
Sex and shamanism in the eighteenth century / Gloria Flaherty
Sequel to: Sexuality in eighteenth-century Britain / edited by P.G. Boucé. 1982