Book of Donmon Teith

Histories of French Sexuality contends that the history of sexuality is at a crossroads. Decades of scholarship have shown that sexuality is implicated in a wid

These essays collectively cover a stretch of French history from Medieval times to the twentieth century, deploying a wide variety of analytical techniques in a

An examination of how Renaissance textual practices and new forms of knowledge transformed notions of sex and sexuality in France.

Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality—from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century. Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why

How much sex should a person have? With whom? What do we make of people who choose not to have sex at all? As present as these questions are today, they were su