
Foucault's Virginity
Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality
Simon Goldhill(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 26. January 1995
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Hardback
208 pages
978-0-521-47372-9 (ISBN)
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The sexy, witty and often bizarre novels, poetry and dialogues of the first centuries of this era (works such as Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Cleitophon and Plutarch's Amatorius) were being composed at the same time as fundamental ideas about the body, gender and sexuality were being set in place with the rise of Christianity and the Church to dominate the pagan world. Modern writers on the history of sexuality have largely ignored this literature in favour of prose treatises, philosophy and Christian homilies. Simon Goldhill, writing with the same wit and verve as the ancient writers with whom he engages, sets out to put these texts back into the history of sexuality. The result is a dazzling celebration of sex and sexuality in the Greek literature of the first centuries CE.
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"An important and accessible work. Recommended for graduate and undergraduates." Religious Studies ReviewMore details
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
344 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-47372-9 (9780521473729)
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Content
Preface; 1. Virginity and going the whole hog: violence and the protocols of desire; 2. The gay science; 3. How like a woman; Notes; Indexes.