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Sexual underworlds of the Enlightenment

Title
Sexual underworlds of the Enlightenment / edited by G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter.
Format
Book
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1988, c1987.
Description
x, 280 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Other contributors
Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian) Porter, Roy, 1946-2002
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
  • From lascivious erudition to the history of mentalities / ThĂ©odore Tarczylo
  • The discourse on sex, or sex as discourse / Peter Wagner
  • Modern prostitution and gender in Fanny Hill / Randolph Trumbach
  • Imagination, pregnant women, and monsters in eighteenth-century England and France / Paul-Gabriel BoucĂ©
  • The sorrows of Priapus / G.S. Rousseau
  • The culture of travesty / Terry Castle
  • Vulnerability and the age of female consent / Antony E. Simpson
  • A touch of danger / Roy Porter
  • Passing women / Lynne Friedli
  • Sex and shamanism in the eighteenth century / Gloria Flaherty.
Kinsey subjects
Sex customs--Europe--18th century. Prostitution--Europe--18th century. Erotica--Europe--18th century.
Subject headings
Europe.
ISBN
0807817821

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
184 S37 1988
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute