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The Boundaries of Eros
Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice
Inbunden, 1985
1865 kr
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Utilizing the records of several Venetian courts that dealt with sex crimes, Ruggiero traces the evolution of both licit and illicit sexuality during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Through this examination of illicit sexuality, Ruggiero sheds light on the institutions, languages, social …
Immodest Acts
The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
Häftad, 1987
310 kr
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The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, by Judith C. Brown was an event of major historical importance. Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of the rise and fall of a powerful woman in a …
Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France
Inbunden, 1993
1179 kr
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After a decade of works on women's history, historians are becoming aware of the dearth of literature on men's history. Professor Nye addresses this gap in a study of evolving definitions of masculinity in France since the eighteenth century. He examines specifically the aristocratic ethos of male …
The Boundaries of Eros
Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice
Häftad, 1989
837 kr
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Utilizing the records of several Venetian courts that dealt with sex crimes, Ruggiero traces the evolution of both licit and illicit sexuality during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Through this examination of illicit sexuality, Ruggiero sheds light on the institutions, languages, social …
Common Women
Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England
Inbunden, 1996
3083 kr
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A "common woman" in medieval England was a prostitute, distinguished as such less for taking money for sex than for belonging to all men in common. Karras's book tells the story of these women, their experiences, relations, and treatment under the law, and concludes that prostitution was central to …
Making Marriage Modern
Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II
Inbunden, 2009
978 kr
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Making Marriage Modern explains the fierce debates among whites and African Americans about American women's sexuality in the early twentieth century that set an older motherhood-centered ideal against a modern female style and produced a new conception of marriage that prevailed until the …
Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy (1550-1730)
Inbunden, 1995
676 kr
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A sociocultural analysis of the relationships among law, religion, and sexual morality in Burgundy during the Catholic Reformation, this book is divided into two, interrelated parts: the world of prescription and the world of practice. The first part examines the construction of authority, focusing …
Homosexuality in Modern France
Av Jeffrey Merrick, Bryant T. Ragan m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1356 kr
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This volume explores the realities and representations of same-sex sexuality in France in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, the period that witnessed the emergence of "homosexuality" in the modern sense of the word. Based on archival research and textual analysis, the articles …
Homosexuality in Modern France
Av Jeffrey Merrick, Bryant T. Ragan m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
938 kr
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This volume explores the realities and representations of same-sex sexuality in France in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, the period that witnessed the emergence of "homosexuality" in the modern sense of the word. Based on archival research and textual analysis, the articles …
Sexuality in the Confessional
A Sacrament Profaned
Inbunden, 1996
3452 kr
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Haliczer's timely work uses a wealth of actual cases to document the eroticizing of the confessional between 1530 and 1819. Trial evidence left by the Spanish Inquisition vividly describes the sexual misconduct of priests and the reactions of the Church. What Haliczer shows is that the …
The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers
Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York
Av Srebnick
Häftad, 1997
465 kr
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Amy Srebnick tells the story of the death of Mary Rogers, antebellum New York City's "Beautiful Cigar Girl". First believed murdered by rapists, later thought the victim of a failed abortion, Mary Rogers became a cause célèbre. Drawing upon the events that surrounded Rogers's death, the author …
Forbidden Friendships
Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
Av Rocke
Häftad, 1998
854 kr
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At the core of this study of Renaissance Florence is the seventy year history of the Office of the Night, created in 1432 to police sexual behavior in Florence. In documenting their history, Rocke provides a vivid portrait of a culture in which sodomy was an accepted characteristic of masculine …
Common Women
Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England
Häftad, 1998
854 kr
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Through a sensitive use of a wide variety of imaginative and didactic texts, Ruth Karras shows that while prostitutes as individuals were marginalized within medieval culture, prostitution as an institution was central to the medieval understanding of what it meant to be a woman. This important …
The Image of Man
The Creation of Modern Masculinity
Av Mosse
Häftad, 1999
1211 kr
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The stereotype of masculinity embraces many qualities. To be manly one must be brave, daring, and cool under fire. A man must be physically strong - tough, skilful, dexterous. And one must also be honourable, honest, and courteous. A man must not complain. A man must not lose control of his …
Before Pornography
Erotic Writing in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2000
3390 kr
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Before Pornography explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England. Drawing on both manuscripts and printed texts, and incorporating insights from modern feminist theory and queer studies, the book argues that pornography is a historical …
Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice
Av Ferraro
Häftad, 2001
636 kr
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This book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the city's ecclesiastical courts by spouses seeking to annul their marriage vows, this book opens up the emotional world of intimacy and conflict, sexuality, …
Before Pornography
Erotic Writing in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2004
804 kr
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Before Pornography explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England. Drawing on both manuscripts and printed texts, and incorporating insights from modern feminist theory and queer studies, the book argues that pornography is a historical …
Making Marriage Modern
Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II
Häftad, 2012
754 kr
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The nineteenth-century middle-class ideal of the married woman was of a chaste and diligent wife focused on being a loving mother, with few needs or rights of her own. The modern woman, by contrast, was partner to a new model of marriage, one in which she and her husband formed a relationship based …
