Sexual Perversions in the Eighteenth Century led by Julie Peakman (Birkbeck)
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Preparatory reading
Peakman, Julie, Sexual Perversions 1650-1890 (Palgrave 2009), Introduction
www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=280774
Cleland, Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25305
de Sade, 120 Days of Sodom
http://supervert.com/elibrary/marquis_de_sade
Dr. Julie Peakman, Post-Doctoral Honorary Fellow and Tutor in the Department of History, Classics and Archaelogy, has worked on the influence of religion and science on the development of erotic material in the eighteenth century. From there, she developed an interest in the treatment of ‘different’ sexualities in history. She has researched prostitution and eighteenth-century libertine culture, and has most recently been considering perceived ‘abnormal’ sexualities in eighteenth-century Britain and the emergence of female sexual pathologies.
Her publications include Emma Hamilton (London: Haus, 2005), Lascivious Bodies. A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century (London: Atlantic, 2004), Mighty Lewd Books, The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003), and her new monograph Civilising Sex. She has edited Sexual Perversions 1650-1890 (Palgrave, 2009) and eight volumes of Whore Biographies, 1700-1825 (Pickering & Chatto, 2007), and A Cultural History of Sexuality (Oxford: Berg, 2010), a six volume collection going from classical Greece to the twenty-first century. (6 volumes from classical Greece to C21st).
Contact name:
Ann Lewis