Medieval Sex for SEXPO 2023

Recommended titles for Sexpo event 2023

Updated June 2, 2023
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
Common women : prostitution and sexuality in Medieval England
Karras, Ruth Mazo
Paper Book
Through a sensitive use of a wide variety of imaginative and didactic texts, Ruth Karras shows that while prostitutes as individuals were marginalized within medieval culture, prostitution as an institution was central to the medieval understanding of what it meant to be a woman. This important work...
A curious history of sex
Lister, Kate
Ebook
This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throughout time, as that would entail writing an encyclopaedia. Rather, this is a drop in the ocean, a paddle in the shallow end of sex history, but I hope you will get pleasantly wet nonetheless. ...
A history of the wife
Yalom, Marilyn.
Paper Book
A woman coming of age today has good reason to wonder what marriage will mean to her. Certainly, it will no longer imply that her husband will provide for her, as an ability to earn a living is commonly expected of both men and women. Also, marriage will no longer offer a woman a unique gateway...
Marriage, sex and civic culture in late medieval London
McSheffrey, Shannon.
Paper Book
Awarded honorable mention for the 2007 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association How were marital and sexual relationships woven into the fabric of late medieval society, and what form did these relationships take? Using extensive documentary evidence from...
Same-sex sexuality in later medieval English culture
Linkinen, Tom
Ebook
This volume investigates the state of same-sex relations in later medieval England, drawing on a remarkably rich array of primary sources from the period that include legal documents, artworks, theological treatises, and poetry. Tom Linkinen uses those sources to build a framework of medieval...
Sex and gender in medieval and Renaissance texts the Latin tradition
Gold, Barbara K.
Ebook
Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century. This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin...
Sex Before Sex : Figuring the Act in Early Modern England
Bromley, James M.
Ebook
What is sex exactly? Does everyone agree on a definition? And does that definition hold when considering literary production in other times and places? Sex before Sex makes clear that we cannot simply transfer our contemporary notions of what constitutes a sex act into the...
Thinking sex with the early moderns
Traub, Valerie
Ebook
What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer...

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.