Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture

Two sections - Chapter 3 on "Female Bodies" and Chapter 5 on "Space" challenge conventional wisdom that there was a shift toward imagining women as passionless and sex as increasingly phallocentric during the eighteenth century. Insisting instead on diversity in past ideas about...

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Published in:The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 2006, Vol.38 (2), p.331
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