This book is an introduction to the latest debates in the history of Sexuality in Europe. It begins with an introduction, 'The Magnetic Poetry Kit of Sex,' that surveys the field of sexuality and introduces the new concept of sexual grammar. The Reader focuses on the modern age, but has three chapters on the ancient and medieval world to demonstrate their very different cultures of sexuality.Each section of the Reader pairs the latest chapters and articles by experts with primary sources
Bridging the fields of political theory and history, this study of Victorian reforms in marriage law reshapes our understanding of the feminist movement of that period. The author analyzes the crucial nineteenth-century changes in married women’s status, and demonstrates the linkage of the domestic and the public oppression of women.