Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy: Practice, Performance, Perversion, Punishment

Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy: Practice, Performance, Perversion, Punishment
ISBN-10
0754667480
ISBN-13
9780754667483
Category
Psychology / Human Sexuality
Pages
286
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
Ashgate
Author
Allison Mary Levy

Description

Princes and paupers; birds and mclons; great art and lascivious sketches; love and lust---in this collection of Pathbreaking essays all take on new meanings and spark adventuresome flights of discovery that suggest exciting new ways of rethinking Early Modern Italy. If anyone has any remaining doubts about the importance of sex for the history, literature, art, or simply the life of Early Modern Italy, this challenging, significant volume by a noteworthy group of scholars will lay those doubts to rest. Guido Ruggiero, University of Miami, USA

Emphasizing the peculiar, the perverse, the clandestine and the scandalous, this volume opens up a critical discourse on sexuality and visual culture in early modern Italy. Contributors consider not just painted (conventional) representations of sexual activities and eroticized bodies, but also images from print media, drawings, sculpted objects and painted ceramic jars. In this way, the volume presents an entirely new picture of Renaissance sexuality, stripping away layers of misconceptions and manipulations to reveal an often-misunderstood world.

`Sex acts' is interpreted broadly, from the acting out, or performing, of one's (or another's) sex to sexual activity, including what might be considered, now or then, peculiar practices and preferences and a variety of possibly scandalous scenarios. While the contributors come from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, this collection foregrounds the visual culture of early modern sexuality, from representations of sex and sexualized bodies to material objects associated with sexual activities. The picture presented here nuances our understanding of Renaissance sexuality as well as our own.

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