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Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science explores attempts to develop bodies of knowledge about sex from antiquity to the present day. Taking into account cognate sciences like zoology, anatomy, embryology and psychiatry, the volume analyses the shaping over the centuries of disciplines which came by 1900 to be called 'sexology'. Various contributions explore the interfaces between 'high' and 'low' sexual teachings, and the connections and tensions between popular and empirical sexual knowledge on the one hand and overtly scientific formulations. A major concern of the book is to investigate the ideological functions - in terms of group, class and gender - of sexual science, especially when incorporated into systems of legal, medical and political power. Among sexual liberals and radicals it has long been an article of faith that sexual science, sexual liberation and sexual fulfilment will all advance hand-in-hand. With the modern backlash against permissiveness, and against the background of AIDS, such views are being challenged. This new book offers an historical perspective upon such questions.

Table of Contents:
Part I. Sexology Before the Era of Freud: 1. Sowing the field: Greek and Roman sexology Helen King; 2. Sadism, masochism and history, or when is behaviour sado-masochistic? Vern L. Bullough; 3. Some traditional Indian views on menstruation and female sexuality Julia Leslie; 4. Sexual knowledge in England, 1500–1750 Patricia Crawford; 5. The transformation of Eve: women's bodies, medicine and culture in early modern England Robert Martensen; 6. The literature of sexual advice before 1800 Roy Porter; 7. The eclipse of sexual selection theory Simon J. Frankel; 8. Mammals, primatology and sexology Londa Schiebinger; 9. Krafft-Ebbing's psychological understanding of sexual behaviour Renate Hauser; Part II. Sexuality Since Freud: 10. The customs of the Magians: the problems of incest in historical societies Michael Mitterauer; 11. Masculinity and the decadence George L. Mosse; 12. 'Not a stranger, a doctor': medical men and sexual matters in the late nineteenth century Angus McLaren; 13. 'May the doctor advise extra-marital intercourse?': medical debates on sexual abstinence in Germany, c. 1900 Andreas Hill; 14. The development of sexology in the USA in the twentieth century Vern L. Bullough; 15. Sigmund Freud and the sexologists: a second reading Sander L. Gilman; 16. 'The English have hot-water bottles': the morganatic marriage of medicine and sexology in Britain since William Acton Lesley A. Hall; 17. Tainted love Richard Davenport-Hines and Christopher Phipps.

Review :
"Although most of the essays are extremely serious in tone, McLaren, Schiebinger, and Porter spice their analyses with a welcome touch of humor. Altogether, this volume will seduce any reader who is intrigued by the history of sexuality." American Historical Review "Covering antiquity to the present, this collection of seventeen provocative articles examines various aspects of sexology, the allegedly scientific study of sex....this volume includes the work of a few authors who have more training in the medical sciences than in history. The insight of such authors is valuable..." Journal of Interdisciplinary History


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  • ISBN-13: 9780521448918
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 422
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  • Weight: 599 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0521448913
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 1994
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
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  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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