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The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe - A Cultural History (Paperback)
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The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe - A Cultural History (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
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How were male bodies viewed before the Enlightenment? And what does
this reveal about attitudes towards sex and gender in premodern
Europe? This richly textured cultural history investigates the
characterization of the sex of adult male bodies from ancient
Greece to the seventeenth century. Before the modern focus on the
phallic, penetrative qualities of male anatomy, Patricia Simons
finds that men's bodies were considered in terms of their active
physiological characteristics, in relation to semen, testicles and
what was considered innately masculine heat. Re-orienting attention
from an anatomical to a physiological focus, and from fertility to
pleasure, Simons argues that women's sexual agency was perceived in
terms of active reception of the valuable male seed. This
provocative, compelling study draws on visual, material and textual
evidence to elucidate a broad range of material, from medical
learning, high art and literary metaphors to obscene badges,
codpieces and pictorial or oral jokes.
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