Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past PDF
Edited by Kate Fisher, Rebecca Langlands
Part of the Classical Presences series
Description
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 inrelated fields - historians, classicists, Egyptologists, and scholars of the Renaissance and of LGBT and gender studies - inviting them to join a much-needed interdisciplinary conversation.
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:340 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:03/09/2015
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Category:
- Ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE
- Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
- Ancient history: to c 500 CE
- Classical history / classical civilisation
- Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
- Social & cultural history
- Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
- Ancient Egyptian religion & mythology
- Cultural studies
- Feminism & feminist theory
- Gender studies, gender groups
- Gay & Lesbian studies
- Sociology: sexual relations
- Sexual behaviour
- ISBN:9780191636066
Information
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:340 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:03/09/2015
-
Category:
- Ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE
- Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
- Ancient history: to c 500 CE
- Classical history / classical civilisation
- Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
- Social & cultural history
- Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
- Ancient Egyptian religion & mythology
- Cultural studies
- Feminism & feminist theory
- Gender studies, gender groups
- Gay & Lesbian studies
- Sociology: sexual relations
- Sexual behaviour
- ISBN:9780191636066
