Desire and discipline : sex and sexuality in the premodern West

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DOI: 10.3138/9781442673854

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摘要: The history of sexuality is one the newest and fastest-growing areas scholarly popular interest. This collection original essays looks at in long stretch between twelfth early seventeenth centuries - a period that remains relatively unexplored, yet has deeply informed contemporary ideas about sex. volume grew out conference University Toronto on human medieval modern world. Featuring works by world-renowned scholars, it presents broad cross-section current research diversity theoretical, methodological, disciplinary boundaries, including legal history, art textual analysis, codicological feminist theory. Some focus universal values Church, highlight intellectual religious homogeneity characterized Europe for much period. Others are more localized look specific social historical context. As whole points to ongoing tension society's desire control people's need express it. Informed trends scholarship, feminism, gay studies, post-colonialism, deconstruction, these introduce scholars some riches only now being unearthed this young discipline.

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