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Premodern Sexualities (Hardcover, New)
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Premodern Sexualities (Hardcover, New)
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"Premodern Sexualities" offers rigorous new approaches to current
problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of
early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating
pre-modern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors
bring together current theoretical discourses on sexuality while
emphasizing problems in historicist interpretation of early
textualizations of sexuality. "Premodern Sexualities" clarifies the
contributions literary studies can make--through its emphasis on
reading strategies--to the historiogrphy of sexuality.
Editors Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero construct a genealogy
for the history of sexuality, sexual practices and sexual
identities, by expanding the recent abundance of work in the
history of sexuality, most notably popularized by John Boswell's
"Same-Sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe." Expanding on a special
issue of the GLQ which explored the role of pleasure in the
construction of narratives about "premodernity" and "modernity,"
Fradenburg and Freccero call for a rethinking of the categories of
history and sexuality in ways that mutually transform each other in
the much needed encounter between historicism and queer theory.
"Premodern Sexualities" is organized into sections that address
some of the most significant concerns in sexuality studies today,
with essays by scholars from a wide range of literay and historical
disciplines. Jonathan Goldberg, Ruth Karras, Bruce Holsinger and
many others contribute essays in "The Erotics of Conquest,"
"Medicine and the Law," and "Sexuality and Sanctity."
Contributors include: David Boyd, Maria Carrion, Richard Corum,
Lorraine Daston, Simon Gaunt, JonathanGoldberg, Bruce Holsinger,
Ruth Karras, Kathryn Lavezzo, Karma Lochrie, Katherine Park,
Patricia Parker, Jose Piedra, and Elizabeth Pittenger
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