The History of Sexuality Sourcebook

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Mathew Kuefler
University of Toronto Press, Mar 1, 2007 - History - 455 pages

Mathew Kuefler has created a unique sourcebook that crosses all continents and transcends historical periods. Ancient, medieval, and modern voices from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas offer their opinions on topics from love and marriage to patriarchy and censorship while excerpts from religious, legal, political, and poetic texts comment on sex and human existence. Sappho, Mencius, Jesus, Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick all have their say on sex and desire. Roman emperors, Hindu mystics, geishas, Nazis, and the Kinsey Report are all represented in this first of its kind collection. A truly stimulating array of documents relating to all aspects of sexuality.

Thoughtful commentary, questions for discussion, and recommended further readings accompany each excerpt. The Sourcebook also includes 24 black and white illustrations and an index.

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Contents

Acknowledgements
13
Preface
15
Three or More Ways of Looking at the History of Sexuality
19
Copyright

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About the author (2007)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe History of Sexuality Sourcebook
EditorMathew Kuefler
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press, 2007
Original fromCornell University
Digitized16 Jul 2009
ISBN155111738X, 9781551117386
Length455 pages
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