European Sexualities, 1400-1800 (New Approaches to European History)
Cambridge University Press, 1/18/2007
EAN 9780521548403, ISBN10: 0521548403
Paperback, 258 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
This is a major new survey of the social and cultural history of sexuality in early modern Europe. Within a frame that includes the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment, it weaves together statistical findings, discussions of changing sexual ideology, and evidence of belief structures regarding family, religion, science, crime, and deviance. While broad in overall scope and coverage, the transformations are framed to highlight the narrative of change over time within each domain. By emphasizing the interrelationship between practices and ideological change - in family form, religious organization, medical logic, legal structures, and notions of deviancy - Katherine Crawford's accessible survey reveals how these changes produced the conditions in which our modern notions of sexuality were developed. This book will be essential reading for students of early modern European history and the history of sexuality.
Introduction
1. Marriage and the family
the nexus of the sexual
2. Religion and sexuality
3. The science of sex
4. Sex and crime
5. Deviancy and the cultures of sex
Conclusion
regimes of sexuality.