[net.religion] The History of Sex: a bibliography

rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) (07/10/85)

Recent Historical Studies of Sex & Sexuality
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The following bibliography is from Lawrence Stone's survey/review
"A History of Sex" in a recent issue of The New Republic (p 26).

Much of the research deals with religion & law.

The order is chronological by subject.

(Printed without permission.)

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WESTERN SEXUALITY: PRACTICE & PRECEPT IN PAST & PRESENT TIMES edited
by Philippe Aries & Andre Bejin (Basil Blackwell, 1985, 220 pp.)

GREEK HOMOSEXUALITY by K. J. Dover (Harvard University Press, 1978,
288 pp.; Vintage Books, 1978, 244 pp.)

THE REIGN OF THE PHALLUS: SEXUAL POLITICS IN ANCIENT ATHENS by Eva
C. Keuls (Harper & Row, 1985, 452 pp.)

L'HISTOIRE DE LA SEXUALITE: 2. L'USAGE DES PLAISIRS, 3. LE SOUCI DE
SOI by Michel Foucault (Gallimard, 1984, 285 pp., 284 pp.)

Unpublished lectures from a forthcoming book, VIRGINITY AND SOCIETY:
MEN, WOMEN, AND SEXUAL RENUNCIATION IN LATE ANTIQUITY by Peter Brown.

"Homosexuality in ancient Rome" by Paul Veyne in Aries & Bejin.

"La Famille et l'Amour sous le Haut-Empire Romain" by Paul Veyne,
ANNALES ESC, 33, 1978.

CHRISTIANITY, SOCIAL TOLERANCE, AND HOMOSEXUALITY: GAY PEOPLE IN
WESTERN EUROPE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE
FOURTEENTH CENTURY by John Boswell (University of Chicago Press,
1980, 442 pp.)

PROSTITUTION IN MEDIEVAL SOCIETY: THE HISTORY OF AN URBAN INSTITU-
TION IN LANGUEDOC by Leah Lydia Otis (University of Chicago Press,
1985, 240 pp.)

"Sex in married life in the early Middle Ages" by Jean-Louis Flandrin
in Aries & Bejin.

"Prostitution, sex & society in French towns in the fifteenth century"
by Jacques Rossiaud in Aries & Bejin.

L'EROTISME AU MOYEN AGE edited by Bruno Roy (Editions de L'Aurore,
1977)

THE BOUNDARIES OF EROS: SEX CRIME AND SEXUALITY IN RENAISSANCE VENICE
by Guido Ruggiero (Oxford University Press, 1985, 352 pp.)

"Eroticism and social groups in 16th-century Venice: the courtesan,"
by Achillo Olivieri in Aries & Bejin.

"La Prostitution Florentine au XVe Siecle" and "Le Celibat" by Richard
Trexler, ANNALES ESC, 36, 1981; 27, 1972.

LES AMOURS PAYSANNES XVIe-XIXe SIECLES by Jean-Louis Flandrin (Gallimard,
1975, 256 pp.)

LES SEXE ET L'OCCIDENT: EVOLUTION DES ATTITUDES ET DES COMPORTEMENTS
by Jean-Louis Flandrin (Seuil, 1981, 376 pp.)

SEXUALITY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN edited by Paul-Gabriel Bouce
(Barnes and Noble, 1982, 274 pp.)

WANTON WENCHES AND WAYWARD WIVES: PEASANTS AND ILLICIT SEX IN EARLY
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND [Sounds really steamy!] by G. R. Quaife
(Rutgers University Press, 1979, 282 pp.)

UNFIT FOR MODEST EARS: A STUDY OF PORNOGRAPHIC, OBSCENE AND BAWDY WORKS
WRITTEN OR PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY by Roger Thompson (Rowman and Littlefield, 1979, 233 pp.)

HOMOSEXUALITY IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND by Alan Bray (Gay Men's Press, 1982,
149 pp.)

HISTOIRE DE LA SEXUALITE: LA VOLONTE DE SAVOIR by Michel Foucault
(Gallimard, 1976, 211 pp.)

AT ODDS: WOMEN AND THE FAMILY IN AMERICA FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE
PRESENT by Carl N. Degler (Oxford University Press, 1980, 544 pp.)

"What ought to be and what was: Women's Sexuality in the Nineteenth
Century" by Carl Degler, AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 79, 1974.

"The Spermatic Economy: a 19-Century View of Sexuality" by Ben Barker-
Benfield, FEMINIST STUDIES, I, 1972.

"Late Victorian Sexual Respectability and the Social System" by Peter
T. Cominos, INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL HISTORY, VIII, 1963.

SUFFER AND BE STILL: WOMEN IN THE VICTORIAN AGE by Martha Vicinus
(Indiana University Press, 1972, 256 pp.)

THE BOURGEOIS EXPERIENCE: VICTORIA TO FREUD. VOLUME I, EDUCATION OF
THE SENSES by Peter Gay (Oxford University Press, 1984, 608 pp.)