Sarah Toulalan
Biographic Data
| ID | 975699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Toulalan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Toulalan |
| SIGNATURE | TOULALAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3722-2972 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Elderly years cause a Total dispaire of Conception’: Old Age, Sex and Infertility in Early Modern England
Although the history of old age has been studied in much greater detail in recent years, the subject of sexuality in old age remains relatively under-explored. This article examines early modern ideas about old bodies and sex in relation to fertility, to argue that because old bodies were understood as either infertile (post-menopausal women) or sub-fertile (old men) they were therefore characterised as unsuitable, undesirable and inappropriate s…
To[o] much eating stifles the child': Fat bodies and reproduction in early modern England
This article examines associations between fat bodies and reproductive dysfunction that were prevalent in medical, midwifery and other literature in early modern England. In a period when fertility and successful reproduction were regarded as hugely important for social, economic and political stability such associations further contributed to negative attitudes towards fat bodies that were fuelled by connection with the vices of sloth and glutto…
The Routledge History of Sex and the Body: 1500 To the Present
My aim in this short afterword is neither to summarize the chapters of this book and provide contextualization for them, as that was one of the tasks fulfilled by the editors’ introduction, nor to provide a ‘final word’ to the collection by writing a conclusion. Rather, I intend to highlight some tensions, problems and areas deserving further scrutiny that my reading of this book suggested to me, and to underscore how the historical analyses carr…
Is He a Licentious Lewd Sort of a Person?”: Constructing the Child Rapist in Early Modern England
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from University of Texas Press via the DOI in this record
Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present
An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws attent
The Act of Copulation Being Ordain'd by Nature as the Ground of all Generation: Fertility and the representation of sexual pleasure in seventeenth-century pornography in England
To a modern reader pornography and the representation of reproduction are mutually exclusive, despite their common subject matter: sex. But seventeenth‐century pornographic texts do not conform to modern ideas about the nature of pornography. Sexual intercourse is defined as for the purpose of procreation with cataclysmic consequences resulting from its avoidance. In this period the pleasures of sex represented in the pornographic text are intima…
Extraordinary Satisfactions: Lesbian Visibility in Seventeenth–Century Pornography in England
This article analyses seventeenth–century pornographic literature and popular ballads to explore alternative representations, and hence interpretations, of female same–sex desire than those presented by either early modern legal, medical and religious discourse in which the image of the tribade predominates, or the homoerotic prose and poetry of female writers. It argues that early modern culture was not limited to interpreting sexual acts betwee…
Private rooms and back doors in abundance: The illusion of privacy in pornography in seventeenth-century England
This article discusses pornography in seventeenth-century England in relation to the public/private debate. The seventeenth century is seen as bordering a shift from a communal, ‘public' style of living to a private, confined, inward-looking sensibility discernible from the eighteenth century. The increasing availability and development of a market for pornography, which goes hand in hand with the expansion of print culture, is seen as part of th…
Elderly years cause a Total dispaire of Conception’: Old Age, Sex and Infertility in Early Modern England
Although the history of old age has been studied in much greater detail in recent years, the subject of sexuality in old age remains relatively under-explored. This article examines early modern ideas about old bodies and sex in relation to fertility, to argue that because old bodies were understood as either infertile (post-menopausal women) or sub-fertile (old men) they were therefore characterised as unsuitable, undesirable and inappropriate s…
Is He a Licentious Lewd Sort of a Person?”: Constructing the Child Rapist in Early Modern England
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from University of Texas Press via the DOI in this record
Private rooms and back doors in abundance: The illusion of privacy in pornography in seventeenth-century England
This article discusses pornography in seventeenth-century England in relation to the public/private debate. The seventeenth century is seen as bordering a shift from a communal, ‘public' style of living to a private, confined, inward-looking sensibility discernible from the eighteenth century. The increasing availability and development of a market for pornography, which goes hand in hand with the expansion of print culture, is seen as part of th…
Extraordinary Satisfactions: Lesbian Visibility in Seventeenth–Century Pornography in England
This article analyses seventeenth–century pornographic literature and popular ballads to explore alternative representations, and hence interpretations, of female same–sex desire than those presented by either early modern legal, medical and religious discourse in which the image of the tribade predominates, or the homoerotic prose and poetry of female writers. It argues that early modern culture was not limited to interpreting sexual acts betwee…
The Act of Copulation Being Ordain'd by Nature as the Ground of all Generation: Fertility and the representation of sexual pleasure in seventeenth-century pornography in England
To a modern reader pornography and the representation of reproduction are mutually exclusive, despite their common subject matter: sex. But seventeenth‐century pornographic texts do not conform to modern ideas about the nature of pornography. Sexual intercourse is defined as for the purpose of procreation with cataclysmic consequences resulting from its avoidance. In this period the pleasures of sex represented in the pornographic text are intima…
Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present
An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws attent
The Routledge History of Sex and the Body: 1500 To the Present
My aim in this short afterword is neither to summarize the chapters of this book and provide contextualization for them, as that was one of the tasks fulfilled by the editors’ introduction, nor to provide a ‘final word’ to the collection by writing a conclusion. Rather, I intend to highlight some tensions, problems and areas deserving further scrutiny that my reading of this book suggested to me, and to underscore how the historical analyses carr…
Is He a Licentious Lewd Sort of a Person?”: Constructing the Child Rapist in Early Modern England
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from University of Texas Press via the DOI in this record
To[o] much eating stifles the child': Fat bodies and reproduction in early modern England
This article examines associations between fat bodies and reproductive dysfunction that were prevalent in medical, midwifery and other literature in early modern England. In a period when fertility and successful reproduction were regarded as hugely important for social, economic and political stability such associations further contributed to negative attitudes towards fat bodies that were fuelled by connection with the vices of sloth and glutto…
Elderly years cause a Total dispaire of Conception’: Old Age, Sex and Infertility in Early Modern England
Although the history of old age has been studied in much greater detail in recent years, the subject of sexuality in old age remains relatively under-explored. This article examines early modern ideas about old bodies and sex in relation to fertility, to argue that because old bodies were understood as either infertile (post-menopausal women) or sub-fertile (old men) they were therefore characterised as unsuitable, undesirable and inappropriate s…
Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Fertility (3 works)