Histories of Sexuality

Histories of Sexuality
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By:"Stephen Garton"
"Philosophy"
Published on 2014-12-18 by Routledge

A \u003cb\u003ehistory of sexuality\u003c/b\u003e runs the risk of con rming popular fears that academics are \u003cbr\u003e\ncapable of ruining even the most simple of pleasures. This book, however, is \u003cbr\u003e\nwritten in the hope that histories of sexuality (although not necessarily this one) \u003cbr\u003e\ncan ...

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This book presents the first assessment of one of the most rapidly expanding fields of research: the history of sexuality. From the early efforts of historians to work out a model for sexual history, to the extraordinary impact of French philosopher Michel Foucault, to the vigorous debates about essentialism and social constructionism, to the emergence of contemporary debates about historicism, queer theory, embodiment, gender and cultural history - we now have vast and diverse historical scholarship on sex and sexuality. 'Histories of Sexuality' highlights the key historical moments and issues: pederasty and cultures of male passivity in ancient Greece and Rome; the impact of early Christianity and ideals of renunciation on the sexual cultures of late antiquity; the sustained existence of homosexual cultures in medieval and renaissance Europe; the \

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