The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe: A Cultural History

ISBN-13: 9781107004917 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 344 str.

Patricia Simons

Opis

A richly textured 2011 cultural history that investigates the characterization of the sex of adult male bodies before the Enlightenment.

Recenzje

'A thought-provoking and important study of the premodern European perceptions of the sexed (male) body that provides critical insights on sex and gender not only for the scholars of early modernity but for anyone concerned with bodies and gender, past or present.' Council for European Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Witnessing Men's Bodies: Paradigms Old and New: 1. How to be a man in early modern Europe; 2. The phallus: history and humour; 3. Material culture in late medieval and early modern Europe; Part II. Projecting Male Sex: Models and Metaphors: 4. Physiology and anatomy; 5. Value and expenditure; 6. Pleasure and the unequal two-seed theory; 7. Fertility and beyond; 8. Implements in action; Conclusion.