Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890 [Hardcover]

Julie Peakman (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 18, 2009

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

Editorial Reviews

Review

"How does one go about identifying sexual perversion, when defining sexual norms is difficult in itself? Julie Peakman's collection of essays offers some incisive answers to this question.  Sexual Perversions provides a fascinating gallop through the strange sexual landscape of the past...there is enough food for thought here to satisfy everyone." —Hallie Rubenhold, TLS

About the Author

JULIE PEAKMAN  is a historian and writer, an Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck College, London University and former Honorary Fellow of Wellcome History of the History of Medicine. Her next book is for Atlantic Publishers, Carnal Knowledge, A World History of Sex. Her previous books include Lascivious Bodies. A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century (Atlantic 2004), Mighty Lewd Books. The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England (Palgrave 2003). She is also the biographer of Emma Hamilton (Haus, 2005); and editor of Whore Biographies 1700-1825 (Pickering and Chatto, 2007, 8 vols), and A History of the Culture of Sexuality (Berg, due 2009). She is a frequent contributor to television history documentaries, international conferences and journals.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (August 18, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0230555101
• ISBN-13: 978-0230555105
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,598,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Julie Peakman first became interested in the history of sex when she studied Victorian prostitution for her first degree. Her study of erotica involved reading most of the eighteenth-century 'under the counter' books in the British Library resulting in her acclaimed book 'Mighty Lewd Books'. She explored the eighteenth-century in her bawdy romp through history, 'Lascivious Bodies' and defined the literary genre in her eight-volumes of Whore Biography 1700-1825. She teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has appeared in documentaries for Channel 4, the BBC and the Biography Channel and writes articles and reviews for History Today, BBC's Who Do You think You Are Magazine?, BBC History Magazine and Herstoria. She lives in London and on the Greek island of Leros with her partner.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Perverted visions, December 18, 2011

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Green_goblin (Somewhere in the Solar System) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890 (Hardcover)

Pretty poorly written and researched book.

Worst of all, it was written only by authors with a distorted view of sexuality.

Nothing interesting here, only a psycho-babble that goes nowhere. Whole paragraphs are devoid of any meaningful content.