Licentious Worlds - Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires

Informationen zum Autor Julie Peakman is a historian and author of many books on the history of sexuality. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Honorary Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a frequent contributor to academic journals, national newspapers and popular magazines and has worked on television documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, Sky and the Biography Channel. Klappentext "A history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world, [in which], in a graphic and sometimes unsettling account, Julie Peakman examines colonization and the imperial experience puttting women back in the picture, showing their role in the building of empires, but also how marginalized men and women were almost invariably exploited. Women acted as negotiators, brothel-keepers, traders, and peacekeepers, but they were also oppressed, forced into marriages, and raped. The book describes daily life in Turkish harems, Mughal zenanas, and Japanese geisha houses, as well as in royal palaces, private households, and on board ships"-- Zusammenfassung A history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Peakman, Peakman Julie
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781789141405
• ISBN: 978-1-78914-140-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, General & world history, Social and cultural history, Empires & historical states, Gender studies: women, General and world history, Gender studies: women and girls, Historical states, empires, territories and regions