Advertisement

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-ix
    PDF
  2. Introduction: Sex before Discourse
    Tim Hitchcock
    Pages 1-7
  3. The Public Cultures of Sex
    Tim Hitchcock
    Pages 8-23
  4. ‘The Surest Way of Wooing’: Marriage, Courtship and Sexuality
    Tim Hitchcock
    Pages 24-41
  5. The Body, Medicine and Sexual Difference
    Tim Hitchcock
    Pages 42-57
  6. Subcultures and Sodomites: the Development of Homosexuality
    Tim Hitchcock
    Pages 58-75
  7. Tribades, Gross-Dressers and Romantic Friendship
    Tim Hitchcock
    Pages 76-92
  8. Sexual Fear and the Regulation of Society
    Tim Hitchcock
    Pages 93-109
  9. Conclusions
    Tim Hitchcock
    Pages 110-114
  10. Back Matter
    Pages 115-172
    PDF

About this book

Introduction

This fascinating and wide-ranging analysis of gender and sexualities brings together the disparate literatures on demography, love and marriage, the body, homosexuality, lesbianism, and the regulation of sexuality. It makes available to both undergraduates and professionals these complex literatures in an accessible and readable form, and in the process changes our understanding of the nature of the origins and development of modern sexual roles and gender relations.

Keywords

access body corpus culture discourse English gender knowledge literature marriage medicine nature Romanticism society understanding

Authors and affiliations

  • Tim Hitchcock
    • 1
  1. 1.University of North LondonUK

Bibliographic information