From Sappho to De Sade (Routledge Revivals)

The history of sexuality has been the subject of more widely acknowledged importance in the interpretation of past mentalités. The contributors to this inter-disciplinary collection explore various aspects of sexuality: pederasty and lesbian love in antiquity, incest in the Middle Ages, sexual education during the Dutch Republic, voyeurism in the rococo, prostitution in Vienna, and the invention of sexology. From Sappho to De Sade, first published in 1989, offers an entertaining resource for students of cultural anthropology, social history and gender studies.

List of illustrations; Preface 1. Greek Pederasty and Modern Homosexuality Jan Bremmer 2. Lesbian Sappho and Sappho of Lesbos André Lardinois 3. To the Limits of Kinship: Anti-Incest Legislation in the Early Medieval West (500-900) Mayke de Jong 4. A Bridle for Lust: Representations of Sexual Morality in Dutch Children's Portraits of the Seventeenth Century Jan Baptist Bedaux 5. The Woman on a Swing and the Sensuous Voyeur: Passion and Voyeurism in French Rococo Mirjam Westen 6. Venus Minsieke Gasthius: Sexual Beliefs in Eighteenth-Century Holland Herman Roodenburg 7. De Sade, A Pessimistic Libertine Arnold Heumakers 8. Sexual Morality and the Meaning of Prostitution in Fin-De-Siècle Vienna Karin J. JuSek 9. Mannish Women of the Balkan Mountains René Grémaux 10. A History of Sexuality: Social and Historical Aspects of Sexuality Gert Hekma; Notes on contributors; Select bibliography; Index