Julie Peakman
Auteur van Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century
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Julie Peakman's biography draws on those scandalous memoirs to uncover the life of one of the era's most fascinating women and restore Peg to the fame she enjoyed in her heyday.
Werken van Julie Peakman
Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England (2003) 48 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1957-08-18
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
- Beroepen
- historian
broadcaster - Relaties
- Adams, Jad (spouse)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Honorary Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 14
- Leden
- 303
- Populariteit
- #77,624
- Waardering
- 3.9
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 37
The first few chapters, about what constitutes "normal" sex, masturbation, and certain elements of queerness, were interesting enough (though as a bisexual I was bothered by the fact that gay men, lesbians, and crossdressers all got their own complete chapters but there was nary a single word about people like me).
But then I got up to the chapter on sadomasochism and I just wanted to throw the damn book across the room. As a kinky person, I was really looking forward to this chapter--it was actually the main reason I picked up the book. So you can imagine how upset I was when, instead of discussion of consensual BDSM, I found discussion of stuff like Romans feeding Christians to lions, medieval saints being tortured, Victorian men raping and mutilating and murdering little boys. There was NOTHING about BDSM being practiced in a consensual and healthy way until the very end, when there was a little thing about how oh yeh you can go to a sex shop and buy a whip or whatever, no big deal--THEN WHY WERE YOU ONLY TALKING ABOUT REALLY FUCKED UP THINGS FOR THE ENTIRE CHAPTER INSTEAD OF THAT?
It infuriated me, so much that I couldn't bring myself to read the rest of the book. It's as if the author was so busy writing chapters about things that are actually fucked up (e.g. pedophilia, incest) that she felt as if she had to bring that attitude to even things that, when practiced the right way, aren't problematic at all. I was very disappointed.… (meer)