Sexual Outcasts presents a wide range of texts selected to illustrate the diversity o …… [ 展开全部 ] f responses to the concealed body and to secret or forbidden sexual practices from 1750-1850. The documents serve to trace the circulation of heterogenous constructions of the body and of sexuality at a particular historical moment and to record their evolution and displacement in time. Each ...(展开全部) Sexual Outcasts presents a wide range of texts selected to illustrate the diversity of responses to the concealed body and to secret or forbidden sexual practices from 1750-1850. The documents serve to trace the circulation of heterogenous constructions of the body and of sexuality at a particular historical moment and to record their evolution and displacement in time. Each volume follows the means by which prohibitions and taboos were produced and circulated. The reader can therefore explore the processes of marginalisation and ideological exclusion that disciplined the representation of the body and the construction of sexual outcasts. This 4-volume set presents a wide range of textual material: criminal reports scientific and medical publications newspaper items sex manuals guidebooks speculative accounts and case histories. The variety of sources permits a multiple perspective on the body, sexual drives, gendered psychologies and perverse behaviour across the century. Sexual Outcasts provides a valuable sourcebook as well as a platform for new readings of literary texts and cultural history from 1740 to 1850.
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