Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890

Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890 By Julie Peakman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 2009-09-15 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0230555101 | PDF | 8 MB

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.

In a series of original essays, Sexual Perversions attempts to open a debate – to begin an exploration into the history of the many sexual activities considered outside the realm of normal behaviour. For the first time in an examination of this period, such diverse subject matter as necrophilia, paedophilia, cross-dressing, religious perversion, foot fetishism and rape, will be brought together. The book covers religion, culture and literature in history and introduces new scholars working in the arena of the history of sexuality. It involves an analytical appraisal of documentation including plays, poems, erotica, trial records, pamphlets, sermons, and travelogues, in a multi-disciplinary approach.

List of Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Preface; J.Peakman
Introduction part I:What is Sexual Perversion?; J.Peakman
Introduction part II: Sexual Perversion Pre-Sexology; J.Peakman
Staging Perversion: The Restoration's Sexual Allegory of (un) Civil War; B.McLaughlin
Objects, Desire, Identity and Eros 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
Rape and the Construction of Female Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century; J.Mills
Morbid Parts: Gender, Violence and the Necro-Gaze; R.E.May
Nuns, Monks and Sexual Perversion in the Church; D.Peschier
Tropics of Sexuality: Sexual Excesses and Oriental Vices' in the British Raj; P.Murthy
Chinese Sexuality and the Bound Foot; S.Adams

Author Biography
JULIE PEAKMAN is a historian and writer, a lecturer and an Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck College, London University, UK and former Honorary Fellow of Wellcome History of the History of Medicine. Her previous books include Mighty Lewd Books. The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England (Palgrave 2003) and Lascivious Bodies. A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century (Atlantic 2004). She is also the biographer of Emma Hamilton (Haus, 2005); and editor of Whore Biographies 1700-1825 (Pickering and Chatto, 2007, 8 vols), and A History of the Culture of Sexuality (Berg, due 2010). She is currently working on a sexual history of the world, Civilising Sex. She is a frequent contributor to television history documentaries, international conferences and journals.

List of Contributors
SANDRA ADAMS former Assistant Professor in English at Macau University, People's Republic of China
JENNIFER FRANGOS is Assistant Professor of Eighteenth-century British literature, the University of Missouri, USA
REBECCA E MAY Doctoral Candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA
BECKY MCLAUGHLIN Associate Professor of English, the University of South Alabama, USA
JENNIE MILLS Associate Lecturer, the Open University, UK
MARILYN MORRIS Associate Professor of History, the University of North Texas, USA
PASHMINA MURTHY Doctoral graduate in Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, USA
JULIE PEAKMAN Honorary Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
JENNIE SKIPP Postgraduate Tutor, University of Leeds, UK