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Author:   Mathew Kuefler
Publisher:   Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint:   Broadview Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.720kg
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9781551117386

ISBN 10:   155111738
Pages:   455
Publication Date:   01 March 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Three (or More) Ways of Looking at the History of Sexuality   Part I: Sexuality as Social Custom Chapter 1: Patriarchy 1. The So-Called Venus of Willendorf 2. Akkadian Hymn to Ishtar 3. The Legend of Adam and Eve 4. Satakatraya 5. The Laws of Manu 6. Lessons for a Woman 7. The People of Early Japan 8. Herodotus on the Peoples of North Africa Chapter 2: Marriage 9. The Code of Hammurabi 10. Creon's Speech from Antigone 11. Andromache's Speech from The Women of Troy 12. The Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah 13. A Father's Advice 14. The Ramayana 15. Poem between a Husband and Wife 16. Egyptian Marriage Contracts 17. An Egyptian Married Couple 18. Augustine's Confessions Chapter 3: The Varieties of Sexual Expression 19. Aristophanes' Speech from the Symposium 20. Pederasty in Greek Art 21. Poem of Theocritus 22. The Chinese Emperors' Male Favorites 23. The Story of a Eunuch and the Queen Dowager 24. The Holiness Code 25. Prostitution as Metaphor 26. Herodotus on Sacred Prostitution 27. Pseudo-Lucian on Ritual Castration 28. Apuleius on Eunuchs 29. Lactantius on Sexual Difference Chapter 4: Public and Private Sexuality 30. Fragments of Sappho's Poems 31. Augustine's Denunciations in The City of God 32. The Rape of Lucretia 33. Suetonius on Augustus and Caligula 34. Martial's Epigrams 35. Shakuntala 36. Harem Life from the Kamasutra 37. Moche Drinking Cup 38. The Tale of Genji 39. The Diary of Lady Murasaki Part II: Sexuality as Ideology   Chapter 5: Sex and Human Experience 40. Japanese Creation Myth from the Kojiki 41. Peruvian Myth 42. The Song of Songs 43. Marriage Hymn from the Rig Veda 44. Krishna and the Milkmaids 45. Vishnu as Mohini 46. Erotic Temple Sculpture 47. Mencius 48. The Qur'an on Women 49. The Qur'an on the Afterlife Chapter 6: Sexual Renunciation 50. The Early Life of the Buddha 51. The Dhammapada 52. Buddha and Tara 53. The Chariot of Mind and Body 54. Oribasius on the Dangers of Sex 55. The Book of Wisdom on Sex 56. Jesus on Sex and Marriage 57. Paul on Sex and Marriage 58. Paul on Sex and Marriage, Again 59. Jesus on Sex and Marriage, Again 60. Poems of Mirabai Chapter 7: The Elaboration of Tradition 61. The Talmud on Rape, Seduction, and Slander 62. Maimonides on Marriage 63. Jewish Marriage Contracts 64. Early Islamic Hadith 65. Later Islamic Hadith 66. Augustine on the Origins of Lust 67. Jerome's Letter to Eustochium 68. List of Christian Sexual Sins 69. A Personified Consanguinity Table 70. Early Buddhist Legends 71. The Levels of the Buddhist Heaven 72. List of Buddhist Sexual Sins Chapter 8: Dissenting Voices 73. Poem of Moses ibn Ezra 74. A Marriage Dispute 75. Abu Nuwas on Sexual Choice 76. A Tale from The Thousand and One Nights 77. Persian Miniature 78. A Hindu Writer on Buddhist Sexual Renunciation 79. Drukpa Kunley's Attempt at Incest 80. Marriage among the Franks 81. Poem of Marbod of Rennes 82. Song of a Female Troubadour 83. Another Song of a Female Troubadour 84. The Wife of Bath Part III: Sexuality as Identity Chapter 9: Puritans and Libertines 85. Martin Luther on Sex and Marriage 86. Bernard Mandeville's Defense of Prostitution 87. The Marquis de Sade 88. The Code Napoleon 89. Nafzawi on Physical Attractiveness and Abortion 90. Jade Scent and Honest Quan 91. Page from a Chinese Erotic Album 92. The Mysterious Woman 93. Marx and Engels on the Family 94. Han Yi's Destroying the Family 95. Fidel Castro's Address to the Women of Cuba 96. The Nazi Family 97. Letters from Raden Adjeng Kartini Chapter 10: The Other 98. Marco Polo 99. The Hammer of Witches 100. The Sexual Customs of Utopia 101. A Letter from Amerigo Vespucci 102. Bernal Diaz del Castillo's True History 103. John Fryer on the Zoroastrians 104. George Robertson on the People of Tahiti 105. A Missionary in Tahiti 106. George Angas on the Aborigines of Australia 107. Mary Kingsley in West Africa 108. China and the United States Compared 109. An Anti-Immigrant Poster 110. John Gunther on Australia and New Guinea 111. Image of an African Woman 112. Communist Sex 113. Homosexuals as the Other Chapter 11: Science and Sexuality 114. The Problem with Masturbation 115. Curing Masturbation 116. Anti-Hysteria Device 117. Freud on Hysteria 118. Sexual Excitability and Eugenics 119. The New Science of Sexology 120. The Corset 121. The Kinsey Report 122. Frigidity 123. Sociobiology 124. Scientific Matchmaking 125. Evelyn Hooker's Research on Homosexuality 126. Neither Men nor Women 127. The Hite Report 128. Nancy Chodorow on Children's Sexual Development   Chapter 12: Social Factors 129. A Woman of Quality 130. Boy Actresses 131. An Image of the Floating World 132. Address to the Magdalen Society of New York 133. Dating in Nineteenth-Century Cuba 134. Susan B. Anthony on Women 135. A Denunciation of Urban Life 136. Changing Marital Patterns among the Kgatla 137. Women's Education and Marriage in Japan 138. Sex in Advertising 139. Prostitution in Bombay 140. Dating in Modern Taiwan 141. Egyptian Women and Work Chapter 13: Speaking Sex 142. Abortion and the Floating World in Japan 143. The Regulation of Prostitution 144. A Muckraker on Prostitution 145. Anthony Comstock and Censorship 146. The Hays Code 147. Lynching and Sex 148. Margaret Sanger and Mahatma Gandhi on Birth Control 149. Gandhi on Sati and Purdah 150. She May Look Clean 151. Men and Women at the Beach 152. A Drag Ball in Berlin 153. The Stonewall Riots 154. Silence = Death 155. Abortion Arguments 156. Female Circumcision Chapter 14: Sex and Self-Fulfillment 157. A Poem about Marriage 158. An Unhappy Marriage 159. An Ode to Breasts 160. Rekhti Erotic Poem 161. Another Kind of Love 162. Jung on Love 163. Wilhelm Reich and Sex-Economy 164. Simone de Beauvoir 165. Picasso's Couple 166. Jagua Nana 167. Helen Gurley Brown on Being Sexy 168. Advertising and the Invention of Halitosis 169. The Gay Liberation Front's Manifesto 170. S/M Sex 171. A Poem about Bisexuality Chapter 15: Sex and the Uses of History 172. Michel Foucault and the Repressive Hypothesis 173. The Spread of AIDS and Global Migration 174. Prostitution in Thailand 175. Pornography and the Oppression of Women 176. Islam and Women's Sexuality 177. Same-Sex Marriage 178. Other Homoerotic Traditions 179. Changing Sexual Paradigms 180. S/M History 181. Bisexuality 182. The Men's Movement 183. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Queer Theory Bibliography Sources Temporal Index Geographical Index Topical Index

Reviews

Historians are as interested in sex as the next person. But we soon find this most dangerous subject to be extremely hard to master for oneself--harder still to make accessible to others. I only wish my own awkward start in the field had been eased by a guide half as helpful as Mathew Kuefler's new History of Sexuality Sourcebook. Selecting his texts from diverse cultures and more than two millennia, Kuefler seeks to reach beyond sexuality specialists to historians and their students. Inspired by the 'open-mindedness of thought' that he recommends, he guides his readers through the thickets of theory and interpretation confidently and with plain good sense. His readers will meet Darwin and biology, as well as Marx and Freud, plus a good selection of cultural theorists. His 'Questions for Reflection and Discussion' empower readers for genuine engagement with each document. This volume is a keeper. Courses based on Kuefler will illuminate their audiences and probably win teaching awards too. --Paul R. Hyams, Cornell University Mathew Kuefler has ransacked Clio's closet. Selecting from among the more provocative pieces of her wardrobe, Kuefler has dressed up the muse of history to accentuate her sex appeal. Showcasing old favorites as well as the very latest styles, Kuefler's thorough and thoughtful catalogue of primary sources on the history of sexuality will be an essential reference for students and teachers alike (his questions for discussion make excellent accessories). For all those who follow the fashions of the sexual past, The History of Sexuality Sourcebook is a must-have. --Steven Maynard, Queen's University

This volume is a keeper. Courses based on Kuefler will illuminate their audiences and probably win teaching awards too. - Paul R. Hyams, Cornell University

Historians are as interested in sex as the next person. But we soon find this most dangerous subject to be extremely hard to master for oneself-harder still to make accessible to others. I only wish my own awkward start in the field had been eased by a guide half as helpful as Mathew Kuefler's new History of Sexuality Sourcebook. Selecting his texts from diverse cultures and more than two millennia, Kuefler seeks to reach beyond sexuality specialists to historians and their students. Inspired by the 'open-mindedness of thought' that he recommends, he guides his readers through the thickets of theory and interpretation confidently and with plain good sense. His readers will meet Darwin and biology, as well as Marx and Freud, plus a good selection of cultural theorists. His 'Questions for Reflection and Discussion' empower readers for genuine engagement with each document. This volume is a keeper. Courses based on Kuefler will illuminate their audiences and probably win teaching awards too. - Paul R. Hyams, Cornell University

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Mathew Kuefler is an Associate Professor of History at San Diego State University and the Editor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality. He is the author of The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity and the editor of The Boswell Thesis: Essays for the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality.

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