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Sexual knowledge, sexual science : the history of attitudes to sexuality

Title: Sexual knowledge, sexual science : the history of attitudes to sexuality / edited by Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich.
Publication: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Description

xiii, 408 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

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Note

"This book derives in part from a conference held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in the summer of 1991 and organized by Michael Neve and Christine Stevenson"--Acknowledgements.

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Contents

Sowing the field : Greek and Roman sexology / Helen King -- Sadism, masochism and history, or When is behaviour sado-masochistic? / Vern L. Bullough, Dwight Dixon and Joan Dixon -- Some traditional Indian views on menstruation and female sexuality / Julia Leslie -- Sexual knowledge in England, 1500-1750 / Patricia Crawford -- The transformation of Eve : women's bodies, medicine and culture in early modern England / Robert Martensen -- The literature of sexual advice before 1800 / Roy Porter.
The eclipse of sexual selection theory / Simon J. Frankel -- Mammals, primatology and sexology / Londa Schiebinger -- Krafft-Ebing's psychological understanding of sexual behaviours / Renate Hauser -- The customs of the Magians / Michael Mitterauer -- Masculinity and the decadence / George L. Mosse -- "Not a stranger, a doctor" / Angus Mclaren -- "May the doctor advise extramarital intercourse?" / Andreas Hill -- The development of sexology in the U S A in the early twentieth century / Vern L. Burrlough -- Sigmund Freud and the sexologists / Sander L. Gilman -- "The English have hot-water bottles" / Lesley A. Hall -- Tainted love / Richard Davenport-Hines and Christopher Phipps.

Call Number

JFE 95-4080

ISBN

LCCN

93028940

OCLC

28547146

Title

Sexual knowledge, sexual science : the history of attitudes to sexuality / edited by Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich.

Imprint

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Indexed Term

Sexuality History

Added Author

Porter, Roy, 1946-

Teich, Mikuláš.

Research Call Number

JFE 95-4080