The History of Sexuality Sourcebook / Edition 1 available in Paperback
The History of Sexuality Sourcebook / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 155111738X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781551117386
- Pub. Date:
- 03/01/2007
- Publisher:
- University of Toronto Press
- ISBN-10:
- 155111738X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781551117386
- Pub. Date:
- 03/01/2007
- Publisher:
- University of Toronto Press
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Overview
Mathew Kuefler has created a unique sourcebook that crosses all continents and transcends historical periods. Ancient, medieval, and modern voices from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas offer their opinions on topics from love and marriage to patriarchy and censorship while excerpts from religious, legal, political, and poetic texts comment on sex and human existence. Sappho, Mencius, Jesus, Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick all have their say on sex and desire. Roman emperors, Hindu mystics, geishas, Nazis, and the Kinsey Report are all represented in this first of its kind collection. A truly stimulating array of documents relating to all aspects of sexuality.
Thoughtful commentary, questions for discussion, and recommended further readings accompany each excerpt. The Sourcebook also includes 24 black and white illustrations and an index.
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| ISBN-13: | 9781551117386 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Publication date: | 03/01/2007 |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 455 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Three (or More) Ways of Looking at the History of Sexuality
Part I: Sexuality as Social Custom
Chapter 1: Patriarchy
1. The So-Called Venus of Willendorf
2. Akkadian Hymn to Ishtar
3. The Legend of Adam and Eve
4. Satakatraya
5. The Laws of Manu
6. Lessons for a Woman
7. The People of Early Japan
8. Herodotus on the Peoples of North Africa
Chapter 2: Marriage
9. The Code of Hammurabi
10. Creon's Speech from Antigone
11. Andromache's Speech from The Women of Troy
12. The Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah
13. A Father's Advice
14. The Ramayana
15. Poem between a Husband and Wife
16. Egyptian Marriage Contracts
17. An Egyptian Married Couple
18. Augustine's Confessions
Chapter 3: The Varieties of Sexual Expression
19. Aristophanes' Speech from the Symposium
20. Pederasty in Greek Art
21. Poem of Theocritus
22. The Chinese Emperors' Male Favorites
23. The Story of a Eunuch and the Queen Dowager
24. The Holiness Code
25. Prostitution as Metaphor
26. Herodotus on Sacred Prostitution
27. Pseudo-Lucian on Ritual Castration
28. Apuleius on Eunuchs
29. Lactantius on Sexual Difference
Chapter 4: Public and Private Sexuality
30. Fragments of Sappho's Poems
31. Augustine's Denunciations in The City of God
32. The Rape of Lucretia
33. Suetonius on Augustus and Caligula
34. Martial's Epigrams
35. Shakuntala
36. Harem Life from the Kamasutra
37. Moche Drinking Cup
38. The Tale of Genji
39. The Diary of Lady Murasaki
Part II: Sexuality as Ideology
Chapter 5: Sex and Human Experience
40. Japanese Creation Myth from the Kojiki
41. Peruvian Myth
42. The Song of Songs
43. Marriage Hymn from the Rig Veda
44. Krishna and the Milkmaids
45. Vishnu as Mohini
46. Erotic Temple Sculpture
47. Mencius
48. The Qur'an on Women
49. The Qur'an on the Afterlife
Chapter 6: Sexual Renunciation
50. The Early Life of the Buddha
51. The Dhammapada
52. Buddha and Tara
53. The Chariot of Mind and Body
54. Oribasius on the Dangers of Sex
55. The Book of Wisdom on Sex
56. Jesus on Sex and Marriage
57. Paul on Sex and Marriage
58. Paul on Sex and Marriage, Again
59. Jesus on Sex and Marriage, Again
60. Poems of Mirabai
Chapter 7: The Elaboration of Tradition
61. The Talmud on Rape, Seduction, and Slander
62. Maimonides on Marriage
63. Jewish Marriage Contracts
64. Early Islamic Hadith
65. Later Islamic Hadith
66. Augustine on the Origins of Lust
67. Jerome's Letter to Eustochium
68. List of Christian Sexual Sins
69. A Personified Consanguinity Table
70. Early Buddhist Legends
71. The Levels of the Buddhist Heaven
72. List of Buddhist Sexual Sins
Chapter 8: Dissenting Voices
73. Poem of Moses ibn Ezra
74. A Marriage Dispute
75. Abu Nuwas on Sexual Choice
76. A Tale from The Thousand and One Nights
77. Persian Miniature
78. A Hindu Writer on Buddhist Sexual Renunciation
79. Drukpa Kunley's Attempt at Incest
80. Marriage among the Franks
81. Poem of Marbod of Rennes
82. Song of a Female Troubadour
83. Another Song of a Female Troubadour
84. The Wife of Bath
Part III: Sexuality as Identity
Chapter 9: Puritans and Libertines
85. Martin Luther on Sex and Marriage
86. Bernard Mandeville's Defense of Prostitution
87. The Marquis de Sade
88. The Code Napoleon
89. Nafzawi on Physical Attractiveness and Abortion
90. Jade Scent and Honest Quan
91. Page from a Chinese Erotic Album
92. The Mysterious Woman
93. Marx and Engels on the Family
94. Han Yi's Destroying the Family
95. Fidel Castro's Address to the Women of Cuba
96. The Nazi Family
97. Letters from Raden Adjeng Kartini
Chapter 10: The Other
98. Marco Polo
99. The Hammer of Witches
100. The Sexual Customs of Utopia
101. A Letter from Amerigo Vespucci
102. Bernal Diaz del Castillo's True History
103. John Fryer on the Zoroastrians
104. George Robertson on the People of Tahiti
105. A Missionary in Tahiti
106. George Angas on the Aborigines of Australia
107. Mary Kingsley in West Africa
108. China and the United States Compared
109. An Anti-Immigrant Poster
110. John Gunther on Australia and New Guinea
111. Image of an African Woman
112. Communist Sex
113. Homosexuals as the Other
Chapter 11: Science and Sexuality
114. The Problem with Masturbation
115. Curing Masturbation
116. Anti-Hysteria Device
117. Freud on Hysteria
118. Sexual Excitability and Eugenics
119. The New Science of Sexology
120. The Corset
121. The Kinsey Report
122. Frigidity
123. Sociobiology
124. Scientific Matchmaking
125. Evelyn Hooker's Research on Homosexuality
126. Neither Men nor Women
127. The Hite Report
128. Nancy Chodorow on Children's Sexual Development
Chapter 12: Social Factors
129. A Woman of Quality
130. Boy Actresses
131. An Image of the Floating World
132. Address to the Magdalen Society of New York
133. Dating in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
134. Susan B. Anthony on Women
135. A Denunciation of Urban Life
136. Changing Marital Patterns among the Kgatla
137. Women's Education and Marriage in Japan
138. Sex in Advertising
139. Prostitution in Bombay
140. Dating in Modern Taiwan
141. Egyptian Women and Work
Chapter 13: Speaking Sex
142. Abortion and the Floating World in Japan
143. The Regulation of Prostitution
144. A Muckraker on Prostitution
145. Anthony Comstock and Censorship
146. The Hays Code
147. Lynching and Sex
148. Margaret Sanger and Mahatma Gandhi on Birth Control
149. Gandhi on Sati and Purdah
150. She May Look Clean
151. Men and Women at the Beach
152. A Drag Ball in Berlin
153. The Stonewall Riots
154. Silence = Death
155. Abortion Arguments
156. Female Circumcision
Chapter 14: Sex and Self-Fulfillment
157. A Poem about Marriage
158. An Unhappy Marriage
159. An Ode to Breasts
160. Rekhti Erotic Poem
161. Another Kind of Love
162. Jung on Love
163. Wilhelm Reich and Sex-Economy
164. Simone de Beauvoir
165. Picasso's Couple
166. Jagua Nana
167. Helen Gurley Brown on Being Sexy
168. Advertising and the Invention of Halitosis
169. The Gay Liberation Front's Manifesto
170. S/M Sex
171. A Poem about Bisexuality
Chapter 15: Sex and the Uses of History
172. Michel Foucault and the Repressive Hypothesis
173. The Spread of AIDS and Global Migration
174. Prostitution in Thailand
175. Pornography and the Oppression of Women
176. Islam and Women's Sexuality
177. Same-Sex Marriage
178. Other Homoerotic Traditions
179. Changing Sexual Paradigms
180. S/M History
181. Bisexuality
182. The Men's Movement
183. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Queer Theory
Bibliography
Sources
Temporal Index
Geographical Index
Topical Index
What People are Saying About This
Historians are as interested in sex as the next person. But we soon find this most dangerous subject to be extremely hard to master for oneself—harder still to make accessible to others. I only wish my own awkward start in the field had been eased by a guide half as helpful as Mathew Kuefler's new History of Sexuality Sourcebook. Selecting his texts from diverse cultures and more than two millennia, Kuefler seeks to reach beyond sexuality specialists to historians and their students. Inspired by the 'open-mindedness of thought' that he recommends, he guides his readers through the thickets of theory and interpretation confidently and with plain good sense. His readers will meet Darwin and biology, as well as Marx and Freud, plus a good selection of cultural theorists. His 'Questions for Reflection and Discussion' empower readers for genuine engagement with each document. This volume is a keeper. Courses based on Kuefler will illuminate their audiences and probably win teaching awards too.
Mathew Kuefler has ransacked Clio's closet. Selecting from among the more provocative pieces of her wardrobe, Kuefler has dressed up the muse of history to accentuate her sex appeal. Showcasing old favorites as well as the very latest styles, Kuefler's thorough and thoughtful catalogue of primary sources on the history of sexuality will be an essential reference for students and teachers alike (his questions for discussion make excellent accessories). For all those who follow the fashions of the sexual past, The History of Sexuality Sourcebook is a must-have.