In this fascinating book, Sander L. Gilman traces the history of
how sexuality has been represented in Western civilization since
the advent of Christianity. In so doing, he shows how these
cultures define themselves and are shaped by their concepts of
beauty and ugliness, masculinity and femininity, health and
sickness, the sacred and profane. Gilman demonstrates how such
concepts are elements in the greater tapestry of Western culture,
through which run threads that have remained unbroken for nearly
two millennia.
With the help of over three-hundred and twenty pictorial
representations produced throughout the ages (most of them
unavailable elsewhere), he provides a thorough, comparative look at
the foundations and mechanisms of Western sexual constructs and
their impact on every aspect of life. From the Middle Ages through
current myth-making about AIDS, he draws on materials from
medicine, anatomy, pathology, art, and literature to show how ideas
of the body and the sexual are and have been portrayed.
"Sexuality: An Illustrated History" is a fascinating-and
sometimes disturbing-contribution to the current discourse on
sexual ethics and politics. It helps in defining sexuality and the
understanding and portrayal of the body as a social and historical
phenomenon while exposing the sources and mechanisms of cultures'
most deep-seated prejudices.
Sander L. Gilman, PhD, is a distinguished professor of the
Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at
Emory University. A respected educator, he has served as Old
Dominion Visiting Professor of English at Princeton; Northrop Frye
Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of
Toronto; Mellon Visiting Professor of Humanities at Tulane
University; Goldwin Smith Professor of Humane Studies at Cornell
University; and Professor of the History of Psychiatry at Cornell
Medical College. He has written and edited several books including
"The Face of Madness" and "Seeing the Insane."
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