The Routledge History of Sex and the Body: 1500 to the Present

Introduction. 1. Studying the Body and Sexuality. The Good, the Bad, and the Textual: Approaches to the Study of the Body and Sexuality, 1500-1750 Katherine Crawford Approaches to the History of Sexuality Since 1750 H. G. Cocks 2. Sexual Science: Medical Understandings of the Body c. 1500-1750 Lauren Kassell 1750 to the Present Richard Cleminson 3. Examining the Body: Science, Technology and Explorations of the Body Examining the Body c. 1500-1750 Michael Stolberg Examining the Body, Post 1750 Malcolm Nicolson 4. Body and Mind: Sexuality and Identity From Age to Gender, 1500-1750: from the Adolescent Male to the Adult Effeminate Body Randolph Trumbach (De-)Constructing Sexual Kinds c. 1750 to the present Ivan Crozier 5. Clothing and Nakedness From the Cradle to the Grave: Clothing the Early Modern Body Susan Vincent Exposing, Adorning, and Dressing the Body in the Modern Era Paul R. Deslandes 6. Pornography and Erotica Erotic Representation 1500-1750 Ian Frederick Moulton Pornography and Erotica c. 1750 to the Present Lisa Z. Sigel 7. Knowledge and Experience 1500-1750 Laura Gowing Knowledge and Experience from 1750 to the 1960s Tanya Evans 8. Life Cycles 'Age to Great, or to Little, Doeth let Conception': Bodies, Sex and the Life Cycle, 1500-1750 Sarah Toulalan Fairy Tales of Fertility: Bodies, Sex and the Life cycle, c. 1750-2000 Julie-Marie Strange 9. Courtship and Marriage 1500-1750 Martin Ingram Marriage and Companionate Ideals Since 1750 Kate Fisher 10. Reproduction 1500-1750 Lianne McTavish 1750 to the Present Helen Blackman 11. Prostitution The Body of the Prostitute, Medieval to Modern Kathryn Norberg Prostitution from 1800 Maria Luddy 12. Sexual Violence and Rape Sexual violence and rape in Europe, 1500-1750 Garthine Walker Sexual violence from c.1750 Shani D'Cruze 13. Sexual Disease 'The Venereal Disease', 1500-1800 Kevin P. Siena Sexual Diseases post-1750 Lesley A. Hall 14. Bodies, Sex and Race Western Encounters with Sex and Bodies in Non-European

Sarah Toulalan is a senior lecture of the history of the body at the University of Exeter, UK. Her previous publications include, Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the Present co-edited with Kate Fisher (2011) and Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England (2007). Kate Fisher is a professor of the history of sexuality at the University of Exeter, UK. Her previous publications include, Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the Present co-edited with Sarah Toulalan (2011), Sex before the Sexual Revolution. Intimate Life in England 1918-1963 co-authored with Simon Szreter (2010) and Birth control, sex and marriage in Britain 1918-60 (2006).

'Comprehensive and impressive. Toulalan and Fisher have assembled essays by a wide range of experts in this rapidly evolving field, making for a volume that will be valued by students and researchers alike.' Prof. William M. Reddy, Duke University, USA