English Sexualities, 1700-1800 / Edition 1

by Tim Hitchcock

Overview

This fascinating and wide-ranging analysis of gender and sexualities brings together the disparate literatures on demography, love and marriage, the body, homosexuality, lesbianism, and the regulation of sexuality. It makes available to both undergraduates and professionals these complex literatures in an accessible and readable form, and in the process changes our understanding of the nature of the origins and development of modern sexual roles and gender relations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312165741
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	04/15/1997
Series:	Social History in Perspective Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Tim Hitchcock is a reader in 18th-century history at the University of Hertfordshire.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Sex Before Discourse.- The Public Cultures of Sex.- 'The Surest Way of Wooing': Marriage Courtship and Sexuality.- The Body, Medicine and Sexual Difference.- Subcultures and Sodomites, the Development of Homosexuality.- Tribades, Cross-Dressers and Romantic Friendship.- Sexual Fear and the Regulation of Society.- Conclusions.- Further Reading.- Index.