Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890

A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history.

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface; J. Peakman Introduction part I:What is Sexual Perversion? ; J. Peakman Introduction part II: Sexual Perversion Pre-Sexology; J. Peakman Staging Perversion: The Restoration's Sexual Allegory of (un) Civil War; B. McLaughlin Objects, Desire, Identity and Eros in the Writings of Lord Hervey and Charlotte Charke; M. Morris The Woman in Man's Clothes and the Pleasures of Delarivier Manley's "New Cabal"; J. Frangos The Hostile Gaze: Perverting the Female Form, 1688-1800; J. Skipp Rape and the Construction of Female Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century; J. Mills Morbid Parts: Gender, Violence and the Necro-Gaze; R. E. May Nuns, Monks and Sexual Perversion in the Church; D. Peschier Tropics of Sexuality: Sexual Excesses and Oriental Vices' in the British Raj; P. Murthy Chinese Sexuality and the Bound Foot; S. Adams