Part I. Sexology Before the Era of Freud: 1. Sowing the field: Greek and Roman sexology Helen King; 2. Sadism, masochism and history, or when is behaviour sado-masochistic? Vern L. Bullough; 3. Some traditional Indian views on menstruation and female sexuality Julia Leslie; 4. Sexual knowledge in England, 1500–1750 Patricia Crawford; 5. The transformation of Eve: women's bodies, medicine and culture in early modern England Robert Martensen; 6. The literature of sexual advice before 1800 Roy Porter; 7. The eclipse of sexual selection theory Simon J. Frankel; 8. Mammals, primatology and sexology Londa Schiebinger; 9. Krafft-Ebbing's psychological understanding of sexual behaviour Renate Hauser; Part II. Sexuality Since Freud: 10. The customs of the Magians: the problems of incest in historical societies Michael Mitterauer; 11. Masculinity and the decadence George L. Mosse; 12. 'Not a stranger, a doctor': medical men and sexual matters in the late nineteenth century Angus McLaren; 13. 'May the doctor advise extra-marital intercourse?': medical debates on sexual abstinence in Germany, c. 1900 Andreas Hill; 14. The development of sexology in the USA in the twentieth century Vern L. Bullough; 15. Sigmund Freud and the sexologists: a second reading Sander L. Gilman; 16. 'The English have hot-water bottles': the morganatic marriage of medicine and sexology in Britain since William Acton Lesley A. Hall; 17. Tainted love Richard Davenport-Hines and Christopher Phipps.
This volume is about those who have investigated sex from antiquity to the present day.
"Although most of the essays are extremely serious in tone,
McLaren, Schiebinger, and Porter spice their analyses with a
welcome touch of humor. Altogether, this volume will seduce any
reader who is intrigued by the history of sexuality." American
Historical Review
"Covering antiquity to the present, this collection of seventeen
provocative articles examines various aspects of sexology, the
allegedly scientific study of sex....this volume includes the work
of a few authors who have more training in the medical sciences
than in history. The insight of such authors is valuable..."
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
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