132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Enlightenment sought rational order in the world and found irrationality at every turn, especially where sex was concerned. The human body and its desires exposed powerful contradictions in an age inclined to systematic thinking. This short book surveys some varieties of sexual inquiry and anxiety that marked European culture during the eighteenth century: scientific understandings of sex... Read more
Introduction: Sexualities Enlightened and Unenlightened 1. Sexual Science: The Normal and the Morbid 2. Gender (Non)conformity: (Not) Knowing for Sure 3. Sex and the State: Criminal and Civil Laws 4. Sex and the Church: Belief and Non-Belief 5. Global Sex: Exploration and Exploitation 6. Pornography: Erotic and Para-Erotic Texts. Afterword
Biography
Adam Komisaruk is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at West Virginia University. He is the author of Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing: A Public of One (2019) and the editor of Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden (with Allison Dushane, 2017).
