Amatory Pleasures

Julie Peakman is an Honorary Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is a historian renowned for her work on the global history of sexuality. She is author of Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-century England (2003), Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century (2004), The Pleasure’s All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex (2013) and general editor of the six-volume A Cultural History of Sexuality (2010).

1. Introduction
2. Bodily Anxieties in Enlightenment Sex Literature
3. Perverse Acts
4. Medicine, the Body and the Botanical Metaphor in Erotica
5. The Eighteenth-Century Erotic Garden
6. Initiation, Defloration and Flagellation: Sexual Propensities in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
7. Blaming and Shaming in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Print Culture
8. Memoirs of Women of Pleasure: The Whore Biography
9. ‘The Best Freind in the World’ : The Relationship between Emma Hamilton and Queen Maria Carolina of Naples
10. The History of Sexuality Debate
Bibliography
Index