Vita sexualis : Karl Ulrichs and the origins of sexual science by Leck, Ralph Matthew, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Preface: post-victorians and sexual science -- Acknowledgments -- Motifs in sexual science -- Inventing sexual liberalism -- The epistemic politics of nature -- The science of agape -- Sexual degeneration and bourgeois culture : from eduard reich to max nordau -- Normalizing the marquis de sade : ivan bloch and historical sexology -- Afterword: ulrichs street and epistemic politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Morbid undercurrents : medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France by Quinlan, Sean M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: morbid undercurrents-medicine and culture after the revolution -- Settings: the cultural world of medical practice, ca. 1750-1800 -- Medicine in the boudoir: the Marquis de Sade and medical understanding after the Reign of Terror -- Writing sexual difference: the natural history of women and gendered visions, ca. 1800 -- Seeing and knowing: readers and physiognomic science -- Sex and the citizen: reproductive manuals and fashionable readers under the Napoleonic state -- Sculpting ideal bodies: medicine, aesthetics, and desire in the artist's studio -- The mesmerist renaissance: medical undercurrents and testing the limits of scientific authority -- Physiology as literary genre: passions, taste, and social agendas under the Restoration and July monarchy -- Epilogue: medicine, writing, and subculture after the revolution.…”
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Paolina's Innocence : Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice. by Wolff, Larry

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 13: The Scandal of FranceschiniChapter 14: Child Pornography and the Marquis de Sade; Chapter 15: The Freedom of the Libertine; Part 4: The Innocence of Childhood; Chapter 16: Rousseau's Simple Project; Chapter 17: Paolina Lozaro in Her Own Words; Chapter 18: Paolina Lozaro in the History of Childho; Chapter 19: The Chimera of Innocence; Chapter 20: The Secret History of Sexual Abuse; Conclusion; Notes; Index.…”
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Histoire de seins : Cinéma, mythologie, histoire, littérature. by Lemmonier, Marc

Table of Contents: “…; Alice Ozy; Les paparazzi; Paris Hollywood; Dolly Parton; Phryné; Politique; La Pompadour; Madame Putiphar; Les religieuses; Le marquis de Sade; Saint-Tropez; Salomé; Les sirènes; Agnès Sorel; Soutien-gorge; The Sun; Suzanne au bain…”
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Dirt for art's sake : books on trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita by Ladenson, Elisabeth

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The Book of Broadway by Grode, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Pal joeythe persecution and assassination of jean-paul marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of charenton under the direction of the marquis de sade; peter pan (play); peter pan (musical); the phantom of the opera; the philadelphia story; picnic; pippin; the pirates of penzance; the playboy of the western world; porgy and bess; private lives; the producers; promises, promises; pygmalion; ragtime; a raisin in the sun; rent; rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead; 1776; she loves me; show boat; the show-off; shuffle along; six degrees of separation; the skin of our teeth; sleuth.…”
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