Heterosyncrasies : female sexuality when normal wasn't / Karma Lochrie.

  • Lochrie, Karma
Date:
[2005]
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Description

"In the early twentieth century, marriage manuals sought to link marital sex to the progress of civilization, searching for the history of what they considered to be normal sexuality. Karma Lochrie looks to the foundation of modern society in the Middle Ages to undertake a profound questioning of the heterosexuality of that history...Heterosyncrasies is milestone in the study of sexual identity politics, revealing not only how presumptions of normality obscure our understanding of the past but also how these beliefs affect our present-day laws, society, and daily life." -- Back cover

Publication/Creation

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2005]
©2005.

Physical description

xxviii, 178 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-173) and index.

Contents

Have we ever been normal? -- Untold pleasures : Heloise's theory of female desire and religious practice -- Far from heaven : nuns, prioresses, and Lollard anxieties -- Before the tribade : medieval anatomies of female masculinity and pleasure -- Amazons at the gates.

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    History of Medicine
    TPB.W
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ISBN

  • 0816645981
  • 9780816645985
  • 081664599X
  • 9780816645992