Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality outlines some of the
challenges of retracing sexual acts, identities, and desires in the
past, and shows how historians have responded to these methodological
challenges with ingenuity and creativity. The volume acknowledges that
the history of sexuality poses particularly interesting challenges in
relation to sources due the peculiar nature of sexuality. On one hand,
sexuality is frequently hidden and private, its practices often
unknown, denied, and evaded, its desires fleeting or obsessive, its
reality confused or illuminated by fantasy; yet on the other,
sexuality consistently breaks into the public sphere through moral
panics, waves of persecution, taxonomizing projects, and
medical/juridical interventions. With vivid case studies from renowned
contributors, the chapters provide different theoretical approaches
along with more practical examples of how to study the history of
sexuality. The volume has a broad chronology from the ancient world to
the present, an extensive geography covering not only Europe and the
Americas but also Latin America and Africa, and also includes a
variety of gender and sexual expressions. The book also privileges
texts that offer an intersectional approach, asking how sex and
sexualities were constructed alongside/against other categories of
difference. With accessible writing, this volume encourages the reader
to think creatively about how to find evidence of sex/sexuality in the
past and will be of value to students as well as scholars interested
in the history of sexuality.
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ISBN
9781040103487
Publisert
2024
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Routledge
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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