European Sexualities, 1400–1800
European Sexualities, 1400–1800
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GBPThis is a major new survey of the social and cultural history of sexuality in early modern Europe. Within a frame that includes the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment, it weaves together statistical findings, discussions of changing sexual ideology, and evidence of belief structures regarding family, religion, science, crime, and deviance. While broad in overall scope and coverage, the transformations are framed to highlight the narrative of change over time within each domain. By emphasizing the interrelationship between practices and ideological change - in family form, religious organization, medical logic, legal structures, and notions of deviancy - Katherine Crawford's accessible survey reveals how these changes produced the conditions in which our modern notions of sexuality were developed. This book will be essential reading for students of early modern European history and the history of sexuality.
- An accessible and broad-ranging history of sexuality in early modern Europe
- Chapters are subdivided topically for ease of use by students and teachers
- Explores sexuality through multiple lenses: family, religion, science, crime, and deviance
Reviews & endorsements
'… a welcome addition to the study of Western civilization.' Gwendolyn Morgan, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching
Product details
January 2007Paperback
9780521548403
258 pages
228 × 151 × 16 mm
0.43kg
12 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Marriage and the family: the nexus of the sexual
- 2. Religion and sexuality
- 3. The science of sex
- 4. Sex and crime
- 5. Deviancy and the cultures of sex
- Conclusion: regimes of sexuality.
