In diverse bijdragen worden aspecten van mannelijkheid belicht. Bevat: Sociability and misogyny in the life of John Cannon, 1684-1743 / door Tim Hitchcock: Manliness, effeminacy and the French: gender and the construction of national character in eighteenth-century England / door Michèle Cohen: The body of the friend: continuity and change in masculine friendship in the seventeenth century / door Alan Bray en Michel Rey: Homo religiosus: masculinity and religion in the long eighteenth century / door Jeremy Gregory: James Boswell's manliness / door Philip Carter: Reforming male manners: public insult and the decline of violence in London, 1660-1740 / door Robert B. Shoemaker: Boys will be boys? Manhood and agression, 1660-1800 / door Elizabeth Foyster: 'Nothing is so secret but shall be revealed': the scandalous life of Robert Foulkes / door David Turner: 'The majesty of the masculine-form': multiplicity and male bodies in eighteenth-century erotica / door Karen Harvey: The old Adam and the new man: emerging themes in the history of English masculinities, 1750-1850 / door John Tosh
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.