Hardback
Publication Date: 08/10/2015
Sex: how should we do it, when should we do it, and with whom? How should we talk about and represent sex, what social institutions should regulate it, and what are other people doing? Throughout history human beings have searched for answers to such questions by turning to the past, whether through archaeological studies of prehistoric sexual behaviour, by reading Casanova's memoirs, or as modern visitors on the British Museum LGBT trail. In this ground-breaking collection, leading scholars show that claims about the past have been crucial in articulating sexual morals, driving political, legal, and social change, shaping individual identities, and constructing and grounding knowledge about sex. With its interdisciplinary perspective and its focus on the construction of knowledge, the volume explores key methodological problems in the history of sexuality, and is also an inspiration and a provocation to scholars working in related fields - historians, classicists, Egyptologists, and scholars of the Renaissance and of LGBT and gender studies - inviting them to join a much-needed interdisciplinary conversation.
- ISBN:
- 9780199660513
- 9780199660513
- Category:
- Social & cultural history
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 08-10-2015
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Dimensions (mm):
- 223x147x28mm
- Weight:
- 0.59kg
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Historiography
Feminism & feminist theory
Cultural studies
History of art: ancient & classical art
Classical history / classical civilisation
Sociology
Gay & Lesbian studies
Gender studies
Ancient history: to c 500 CE
Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
Literary studies: classical
Social & cultural history
Sexual behaviour
Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
Sociology: sexual relations
Western philosophy: Ancient
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