Sexual Knowledge, Sexual ScienceRoy Porter, Mikulas Teich Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science explores attempts to develop bodies of knowledge about sex from antiquity to the present day. Taking into account cognate sciences like zoology, anatomy, embryology and psychiatry, the volume analyses the shaping over the centuries of disciplines which came by 1900 to be called 'sexology'. Various contributions explore the interfaces between 'high' and 'low' sexual teachings, and the connections and tensions between popular and empirical sexual knowledge on the one hand and overtly scientific formulations. A major concern of the book is to investigate the ideological functions - in terms of group, class and gender - of sexual science, especially when incorporated into systems of legal, medical and political power. Among sexual liberals and radicals it has long been an article of faith that sexual science, sexual liberation and sexual fulfilment will all advance hand-in-hand. With the modern backlash against permissiveness, and against the background of AIDS, such views are being challenged. This new book offers an historical perspective upon such questions. |
Contents
Introduction I | 11 |
KrafftEbings psychological understanding of sexual | 13 |
Greek and Roman sexology | 29 |
Sadism masochism and history or When is behaviour | 47 |
Some traditional Indian views on menstruation and female | 63 |
Sexual knowledge in England 15001750 | 82 |
womens bodies medicine | 107 |
The literature of sexual advice before 1800 | 134 |
the problem of incest | 231 |
medical men and sexual matters | 267 |
medical | 284 |
The development of sexology in the USA in the early | 303 |
a second reading | 323 |
the morganatic | 350 |
Tainted love | 367 |
384 | |
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The World We Have Won: The Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life Jeffrey Weeks No preview available - 2007 |