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  • "Strange Bedfellows," Introduction to Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy: Practice, Performance, Perversion and Punishment

    Author(s):
    Allison Levy (see profile)
    Date:
    2010
    Group(s):
    Cultural Studies, Digital Art History, History of Art, Performance Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    Sex, History, Performance art--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    15th Century, 16th Century, history of sexuality, Material culture, Visual Culture, Early modern studies, Gender studies, History of sexuality, Performance studies, Visual culture
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6GH2D
    Abstract:
    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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    Publisher:
    Ashgate Publishing
    Pub. Date:
    2010
    Book Title:
    Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy: Practice, Performance, Perversion and Punishment
    Author/Editor:
    Allison Levy
    Chapter:
    Introduction
    Page Range:
    1 - 9
    ISBN:
    9780754667483
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives

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