English sexualities, 1700-1800 / Tim Hitchcock.
English sexualities, 1700-1800 / Tim Hitchcock.
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Publisher
New York : St. Martin's Press ; Houndmills, England : Macmillan, 1997.
Date
1997.
Call Numbers
N306.70942/4
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
ix, 172 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction: Sex Before Discourse -- 2. The Public Cultures of Sex -- 3. 'The Surest Way of Wooing': Marriage, Courtship and Sexuality -- 4. The Body, Medicine and Sexual Difference -- 5. Subcultures and Sodomites: the Development of Homosexuality -- 6. Tribades, Cross-Dressers and Romantic Frie...
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Publisher
New York : St. Martin's Press ; Houndmills, England : Macmillan, 1997.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1997.
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Summary
This book charts a series of complex interrelationships between changes in language and practice, and suggests that men were increasingly encouraged to invest their masculinity in an exclusive desire for the opposite sex, while women were pushed towards a sexual identity in which motherhood came to dominate, and in which female lust was denigrated...
Alternative Titles
Full title
English sexualities, 1700-1800 / Tim Hitchcock.
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Social history in perspective.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-166) and index.
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N306.70942/4
Record Identifier
74VvPBJe0bgM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvPBJe0bgM
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ISBN
9780312165734 (cloth)
0312165730 (cloth)
9780333618349 (cloth Macmillan)
0333618343 (cloth Macmillan)
9780333618356 (pbk. Macmillan)
0333618351 (pbk. Macmillan)
9780312165741 (pbk.)
0312165749 (pbk.)
9780333628348 (cloth Macmillan)
9780333628355 (pbk. Macmillan)
DDC
306.70942
MMS ID
991005720879702626
