This publication examines the ways in which women in differing national and social contexts negotiated the cultural terrain of emergent modernity. The volume presents essays on women's life cycle, bodies and sexuality, religion and popular beliefs, medicine and disease, public and private realms, education and work, power, and artistic representation.
This volume IV of the series ‘A Cultural History of Sexuality’ presents an overview of sexuality in the Enlightenment (1650 to 1820), with essays on heterosexuality, homosexuality, sexual variations, religious and legal issues, health concerns, popular beliefs about sexuality, prostitution and erotica.