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Sexual underworlds of the Enlightenment /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian), Porter, Roy, 1946-2002
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Subjects:
Sex customs > Europe > History > 18th century.
Prostitution > Europe > History > 18th century.
Pornography > Europe > History > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • From lascivious erudition to the history of mentalities / ThĂ©odore Tarczylo
  • The discourse on sex, or sex as discourse / Peter Wagner
  • Modern prostitution and gender in Fanny Hill / Randolph Trumbach
  • Imagination, pregnant women, and monsters in eighteenth-century England and France / Paul-Gabriel BoucĂ©
  • The sorrows of Priapus / G.S. Rousseau
  • The culture of travesty / Terry Castle
  • Vulnerability and the age of female consent / Antony E. Simpson
  • A touch of danger / Roy Porter
  • Passing women / Lynne Friedli
  • Sex and shamanism in the eighteenth century / Gloria Flaherty.