Sexual antipodes : enlightenment globalization and the placing of sex / Pamela Cheek.
Sexual antipodes : enlightenment globalization and the placing of sex / Pamela Cheek.
Sexual antipodes : enlightenment globalization and the placing of sex / Pamela Cheek.
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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2003.
Date
2003.
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820.93538/1
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English
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xi, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1 Metropolitan Allegories -- 1 National Character, Publicity and Sex -- 2 Public Women in the French Body Politic -- 3 Public Life in Enlightenment Pornography -- Pt. 2 Antipodes -- 4 The Sexual Nature of South Sea Islands -- 5 British Encounter: Recognizing Sensibility -- 6 French Encounter: Cr...
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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2003.
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California
Date Published
2003.
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"The title refers to a premise in utopian and exoticist fiction about the southern portion of the globe: sexual order defines the character of the state. The book begins by examining how the idea of sexual order operated as the principle for explaining national differences in eighteenth-century contestation between Britain and France. It traces how...
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Sexual antipodes : enlightenment globalization and the placing of sex / Pamela Cheek.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-236) and index.
Mitchell Library copy: Jacket filed.
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820.93538/1
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74VKO0MlbVey
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080474663X (alk. paper)
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820.93538
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991022627599702626
