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Books in the duPont Library
The Bourgeois Experience-Victoria to Freud by Peter GayEducation of the Senses, the first book of Peter Gay's projectedmulti-volume study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820s tothe outbreak of World War I, re-examines the sexual behavior and attitudes ofVictorians.
Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe by James G. TurnerThis exploration of sexuality and gender in Renaissance art and literature starts from an assumption that would have seemed unthinkable a generation ago: that the 'natural' phenomena of sex, gender and subjectivity are constructed rather than essentially biological or fixed. The essays rise to the challenge of producing a new post-Foucaultian history of gender and sexuality. All of them have been influenced by feminism, and several deal with women not just as objects of representation, but as subjects and authors in their own right. Among the historical issues examined are the production and suppression of women's voices, the relation between illicit sexuality and social order, the ambiguity of beauty, lesbian erotics, birth-imagery and the birthing ritual, the class status of women, the 'femininity' of masculine dress, and the sexual politics of courtesy.
Call Number: NX180.F4 S488 1993
ISBN: 0521390737
Publication Date: 1993
Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the making of early modern identity by Carmen NocentelliThrough literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries--epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation--Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of "India," as the vast coastal stretch from the Gulf of Aden to the South China Sea was often called. If Asia was thought of as a place of sexual deviance and perversion, she demonstrates, it was also a space where colonial authorities actively encouraged the formation of interracial households, even through the forcible conscription of native brides. In her comparative analysis of Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish texts, Nocentelli shows how sexual behaviors and erotic desires quickly came to define the limits within which Europeans represented not only Asia but also themselves. Drawing on a wide range of European sources on polygamy, practices of male genital modification, and the allegedly excessive libido of native women, Empires of Love emphasizes the overlapping and mutually transformative construction of race and sexuality during Europe's early overseas expansion, arguing that the encounter with Asia contributed to the development of Western racial discourse while also shaping European ideals of marriage, erotic reciprocity, and monogamous affection.
Call Number: JSTOR eBook
ISBN: 0812207777
Publication Date: 2013
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