Introduction Kim M. Phillips and Barry Reay Part 1. Rethinking Sex Sexuality and History Revisted Jeffrey Weeks Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality David M. Halperin Part 2 Sexing the Body Bodies That Don't Matter: Heterosexuality Before Heterosexulaity in Gottfried's Tristan James A. Schultz Ut cum muliere: A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London Ruth Mazo Karras and David Lorenzo Boyd Gender and Generation:Representing Reproduction in Early Modern England Mary Fissell Part 3. Controlling Sex Bodies and Minds: Sexuality and Renunciation in Early Christianity Peter Brown Family Life anf Regualtion of Deviance John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman Sexuality in California's Franciscan Missions: Cultural Perceptions and Historical Realities Albert Hurtado Part 4. Redefining Sex Redefining Sex in Eighteenth-Century Tim Hitchcock Sex for Thought Robert Darnton Parasexuality and Glamour: The Victorian Barmaid as Cultural Prototype Peter Bailey Part 5. Constructing Sex Anne Lister's Construction of Lesbian Identity Anna Clark Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Step-Children of Nature: Psychiatry and the Making of Homosexual Identity Harry Oosterhuis Trade, Wolves, and the Boundaries of Normal Manhood George Chauncy Toward a Value-Free Science of Sex: The Kinsey Reports Janice M. Irvine Part 6. Punishing Sex Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography Carole S. Vance AIDS anf the Discursive Construction of Homosexuality Steven Seidman Regualated Passions: The Invention of Inhibited Sexual Desire and Sexual Addiction Janice M. Irvine Hottentot 2000: Jennider Lopez and Her Butt Magdalena Barrera Part 7. Unsettling Sex Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex Without Men or Women C. Jacob Hale The Game Girl of VNS Matrix: Challenging Gendered Identities in Cyberspace Kay Schaffer Notes on Contributors Permissions Acknowledgments Index England
Kim M. Phillips, Barry Reay
"Sexualities in History's brilliant chapters reveal that
assumptions about sex are always provisional though no less
consequential or far-reaching for that reason. Looking back in time
and across at other cultures, this important volume successfully
controverts, hopefully once and for all, the inane notion that
sexuality is a narrow site of inquiry." -- Jennifer Terry, author
of AnAmerican Obsession
"Sex is, perhaps, the least interesting aspect of the history of
sexuality. As this collection makes clear, sexual behaviors and
mentalities are embedded in systems of power and that connection
provides the common thread which Barry Reay and Kim Phillips have
used to draw together a diverse and suggestive collection of
writings." -- David Levine, author of At the Dawn ofModernity
"From the Olympian heights of senior scholars on antiquity and the
enlightenment to the brilliant interventions of junior scholars on
pop culture, from well-known essays on Foucault and pornography to
new works on everything from transvestite prostitutes in the 14th
century England to gendered identities in cyberspace, Sexualities
in History is rich and catholic enough to seduce both the general
reader and the lucky student who is assigned it in a course." --
Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex
"Phillips and Reay present a splendid collection of essays that
moves from antiquity to cyberspace. This is an essential volume for
anyone interested in understanding the contexts and complexities of
human sexualities." -- Jacqueline Murray, co-editor of Desire and
Discipline
"Sex is, perhaps, the least interesting aspect of the history of
sexuality. As this collection makes clear, sexual behaviors and
mentalities are embedded in systems of power and that connection
provides the common thread which Barry Reay and Kim Phillips have
used to draw together a diverse and suggestive collection of
writings. Sexualities in History provides a marvelous introduction
to a subject that is as strangely complex as we are." -- David
Levine, OISE/University of Toronto
"This will be the standard account for...years after it is
published...I am confident that Sexualities in History will have a
long and fruitful life in and out of the classroom." -- Timothy
Gilfoyle, Loyola University
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