Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy

Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy

Practice, Performance, Perversion, Punishment

Taylor & Francis Ltd

07/2010

302

Dura

Inglês

9780754667483

15 a 20 dias

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Contents: Introduction: strange bedfellows, Allison Levy; Part 1 Practice: Prescriptions, Proscriptions, Positions and Props: Pleasure, shame and healing; erotic imagery on maiolica drug jars, Catherine Hess; Body language: sex-manual literature from Pietro Aretinos' 16 Positions to Antonio Rocco's Invitation to Sodomy, Paolo Fasoli; Prostitution in cinquecento Venice: prevention and protest, Ann Rosalind Jones; The woman in the window: licit and illicit sexual desire in Renaissance Italy, Diane Wolfthal; The cultural history of 'Seigneur Dildoe', Patricia Simons. Part 2 Performance: Protagonists, Pretenders and Purveyors: Prohibited discourse and prohibitive relations: Pietro Fortini's novella of Christian-Jewish love, Karina Feliciano Attar; 'Whorish civility' and other tricks of seduction in Venetian courtesan representation, Chriscinda Henry; Traffic in mistresses: sexualized bodies and systems of exchange in the early modern court, Timothy McCall; Currency and conquest, or love for sale, in Titian's DanaA" paintings, Erin Griffey. Part 3 Perversion: Provocative Pairings, Problematic Partners: Peaches and figs: bisexual eroticism in the paintings and burlesque poetry of Bronzino, Will Fisher; 'Divenni madre e figlia di mio padre': queer lactations in Renaissance and baroque art, Jutta Sperling; Incest and inflection in Della Porta's La Sorella, Rachel E. Poulsen. Part 4 Punishment: Pleasure and Pain: Acts, orientations and the sodomites of San Gimignano, Robert Mills; The craft of torture: bronze sculptures and the punishment of sexual offense, Allie Terry; Controlling courtesans: Lorenzo Venier's Trentuno della Zaffetta and Venetian sexual politics, Daniella Rossi; A cock burning in the darkness: Giordano Bruno's 'story of the bedtrick', Sergius Kodera; Bibliography; Index.
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