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Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present

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"That ere with age, his strength is utterly decay'd': Understanding the male body in Early Modern manhood / Jennifer Jordan
Confusion embodied: Epistemologies of sex and race in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, and the Histoire naturelle / Andrew Wells
The hermaphrodite, fecundity and military efficiency: Dangerous subjects in the emerging liberal order of Nineteenth-century Spain / Richard Cleminson and Francisco 'Vazquez Garcia
Touching bodies: Tact/ility in Nineteenth-century medical photographs and models / Elizabeth Stephens
'Farewell to frocks,' 'Sex change' in interwar Britain: Newspaper stories, medical technology and modernity / Alison Oram
'Perversity to match the curtains': Queering the life story with Grayson Perry / Margaretta Jolly
"Unripe' bodies: Children and sex in Early Modern England / Sarah Toulalan
Urge without desire? Confession manuals, moral casuistry, and the features of Concupiscentia between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth centuries / Fernanda Alfieri
On the unsteadiness of sexual truth in Eighteenth-century France / Peter Cryle
'Lay back, enjoy it and shout happy England': Sexual pleasure and marital duty in Britain, 1918-60 / Kate Fisher
Eros and thanatos in European and American sexology / Lisa Downing
Sadism as social violence: from Fin-de-Siecle degeneration to the critiques of Nazi sexuality in Frankfurt School thought / Alison Moore.

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Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present. ISBN 9780230283688. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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