Book Review: J. C. Davis, Fear, Myth and History: The Ranters and the Historians (Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 224, £22.50
In: Political science, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 97-100
ISSN: 2041-0611
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In: Political science, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 97-100
ISSN: 2041-0611
In: History workshop: a journal of socialist and feminist historians, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 79-101
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: History of European ideas, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 319-320
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: Social history, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 387-407
ISSN: 1470-1200
In: Porn studies, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 154-172
ISSN: 2326-8751
In: Porn studies, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 255-275
ISSN: 2326-8751
In: History workshop journal: HWJ, Band 73, Heft 1, S. 66-94
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Heft 76, S. 202
ISSN: 1839-3039
In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Heft 73, S. 244
ISSN: 1839-3039
In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Heft 62, S. 181
ISSN: 1839-3039
In: The economic history review, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 734
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Themes in history
"Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. 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. With a focus on c. 1100-c. 1800, this book explores the shifting meanings, languages, and practices of western sex. It is the first study to combine the medieval and early modern to rethink this time of sex before sexuality, where same-sex and opposite-sex desire and eroticism bore but faint traces of what moderns came to call heterosexuality, homosexuality, lesbianism, and pornography. This volume aims to contribute to contemporary historical theory through paying attention to the particularity of premodern sexual cultures. Phillips and Reay argue that students of premodern sex will be blocked in their understanding if they use terms and concepts applicable to sexuality since the late nineteenth century, and modern commentators will never know their subject without a deeper comprehension of sex's history"--Publisher description.
Over the past twenty years, historians have overturned nearly everything we once took for granted about human sexuality. Gender, sexual orientation, ""deviance,"" and even the biology of sex have been unmasked for what they are-historically specific, culturally contested, and above all, unstable constructions
In: The economic history review, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 465
ISSN: 1468-0289
The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help movement in terms of self-diagnosis, and as a rapidly growing industry of therapists treating the new disease. The media played a role in its history, first with TV, the tabloids and the case histories of claimed celebrity victims all helping to popularize the concept, and then with the impact of the Internet.This book is a critica