Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present

An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws attention to continuities in thinking about bodies and sex: concept may have changed, but hey nevertheless...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fisher, Kate (Editor), Toulalan, Sarah (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2011, 2011
Series:Genders and Sexualities in History
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws attention to continuities in thinking about bodies and sex: concept may have changed, but hey nevertheless draw on older ideas and language
Physical Description:XII, 275 p online resource
ISBN:9780230354128