TY - BOOK ID - 103172837 TI - Sex, knowledge, and receptions of the past AU - Fisher, Kate AU - Langlands, Rebecca PY - 2015 SN - 9780199660513 9780191636066 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Sex customs KW - Historiography KW - History. KW - Social aspects. KW - Sex KW - Sexology KW - Gender (Sex) KW - Human beings KW - Human sexuality KW - Sex (Gender) KW - Sexual behavior KW - Sexual practices KW - Sexuality KW - Historical criticism KW - History KW - Authorship KW - Social aspects KW - Criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103172837 AB - Sex: how should we do it, when should we do it, and with whom? How should we talk about and represent sex, what social institutions should regulate it, and what are other people doing? Throughout history human beings have searched for answers to such questions by turning to the past, whether through archaeological studies of prehistoric sexual behaviour, by reading Casanova's memoirs, or as modern visitors on the British Museum LGBT trail. In this ground-breaking collection, leading scholars show that claims about the past have been crucial in articulating sexual morals, driving political, legal, and social change, shaping individual identities, and constructing and grounding knowledge about sex. With its interdisciplinary perspective and its focus on the construction of knowledge, the volume explores key methodological problems in the history of sexuality, and is also an inspiration and a provocation to scholars working in related fields - historians, classicists, Egyptologists, and scholars of the Renaissance and of LGBT and gender studies - inviting them to join a much-needed interdisciplinary conversation. ER -