Saturday, August 15, 2009

"Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890"

New from Palgrave Macmillan: Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890, edited by Julie Peakman.

About the book, from the publisher:
This book is a fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, effeminate men and masculinised women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history.
The Table of Contents:
Introduction--J.Peakman
Sexual Perversion in the Early Modern Period--J.Peakman
Staging Perversion: The Restoration's Sexual Allegory of (un) Civil War--B.McLaughlin
Objects, Desire, Identity, and Orientation 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
Morbid Parts: Gender, Violence and the Necro-Gaze--R.E.May
Rape and the Construction of Female Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century--J.Mills
Tropics of Sexuality: Sexual Excesses and Oriental Vices' in the British Raj; P.Murthy
Chinese Sexuality and the Bound Foot--S.Adams
Nuns, Monks and Sexual Perversion in the Church--D.Peschier
Appendix: Defining Sexual Perversion--J.Peakman
Visit Julie Peakman's website.