Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history.
Synopsis
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface; J.Peakman Introduction part I: What is Sexual Perversion?; J.Peakman Introduction part II: Sexual Perversion Pre-Sexology; J.Peakman Staging Perversion: The Restoration's Sexual Allegory of (un) Civil War; B.McLaughlin Objects, Desire, Identity and Eros in the Writings of Lord Hervey and Charlotte Charke; M.Morris The Woman in Man's Clothes and the Pleasures of Delarivier Manley's "New Cabal"; J.Frangos The Hostile Gaze: Perverting the Female Form, 1688-1800; J.Skipp Rape and the Construction of Female Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century; J.Mills Morbid Parts: Gender, Violence and the Necro-Gaze; R.E.May Nuns, Monks and Sexual Perversion in the Church; D.Peschier Tropics of Sexuality: Sexual Excesses and Oriental Vices' in the British Raj; P.Murthy Chinese Sexuality and the Bound Foot; S.Adams