Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History

by Kim M. Phillips and Barry Reay

Book Overview

Before the 'invention' of sexuality, erotic acts and desires were comprehended as species of sin, expressions of idealised love, courtship, and marriage, or components of intimacies between men or women, not as outworkings of an innermost self. Focussing on c. 1100-c. 1800, this book explores the shifting meanings, and practices of western sex.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745625231
• ISBN13: 9780745625232
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"