By Teresa A. Meade
ISBN-10: 1405149604
ISBN-13: 9781405149600
A significant other to Gender historical past surveys the heritage of girls worldwide, reviews their interplay with males in gendered societies, and appears on the function of gender in shaping human habit over millions of years. an intensive survey of the background of girls world wide, their interplay with males, and the function of gender in shaping human habit over hundreds of thousands of years. Discusses relations background, the historical past of the physique and sexuality, and cultural background along women’s historical past and gender historical past. Considers the significance of sophistication, zone, ethnicity, race and faith to the formation of gendered societies. includes either thematic essays and chronological-geographic essays. offers due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern period in addition to to the fashionable period. Written by way of students from around the English-speaking international and students for whom English isn't really their first language.
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IV: 210–12). From this perspective, neither the woman who adhered closely to the traditional image of the “angel in the house” nor the one who challenged it could engage the sexual attentions of the conflicted men of the age! By 1900 or so the entire range of what we still take to be “perversions” were integrated into clinical practice and came gradually into discursive use in the broader culture. The word “heterosexual” was also introduced at about this time as a deceivingly neutral description of “normal” sexual aim.
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