Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. — xiv + 276 p. — ISBN: 0-19-513509-9. This fresh and persuasively argued book examines the origins of pornography in Britain and presents a comprehensive overview of women's role in the evolution of obscene fiction. Carefully monitoring the complex interconnections between three related debates--that over the masquerade, that over the...
Princeton University Press, 1997. — 343 p. — ISBN: 0-691-01178-8. This collection of essays seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece to give a fuller picture of ancient sexuality. By applying feminist critical tools to forms of public discourse, including literature,...
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010. — xv+219 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4051-2291-7 (hbk.: alk. paper) This book is a story about fantasy and the reality that lurks behind these fantasies. It is a history of facts and factoids. Its subject matter is the erotic desires that have been projected onto the cultures of classical antiquity. This work examines the impact that sexual fantasies about...