Cultural History of Sexuality in the Enlightenment

Julie Peakman teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her recent books include Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century and Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-century England. She has also edited Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890, eight volumes of Whore's Bibliographies 1680-1815.

BOTTOM LINE Upper-division undergraduate and graduate students will find this overview of the progression of thought about sexuality in the Western world helpful in their studies of social history, cultural history, and gender.

• 1 IntroductionJulie Peakman (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)2 Heterosexuality: Europe and North AmericaAnna Clark (University of Minnesota, USA)3 HomosexualityRictor Norton (Independent Scholar, UK)4 Sexual VariationsMarianna Muravyeva (University of Helsinki, Finland)5 Sex, Religion and the LawMerril D. Smith (Independent Scholar, USA)6 Sex, Medicine and Disease George Rousseau (University of Oxford, UK)7 Sex, Popular Beliefs and CultureHeike Bauer (Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality, UK)8 ProstitutionRandolph Trumbach (City University of New York, USA)9 Erotica: Representing Sex in the Eighteenth CenturyKatherine Crawford (Vanderbilt University, USA)Notes Bibliography Contributors Index