Sexual Antipodes
Enlightenment Globalization and the Placing of Sex
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9403552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pamela Cheek (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Publication date | 2003-02-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Sexual Antipodes (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780804780308 |
| OpenAlex | W4206924989 |
| Open Library | OL37387190M |
| ISBN | 9780804780308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Sexual Antipodes is about how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder in public life. It examines British and French popular journalism, utopian fiction and travel accounts about South Sea encounter, pamphlet literature, and pornography, as well as more traditional literary sources on the eighteenth century, such as the novel and philosophical essays and tales. The title refers to a premise in utopian and exoticist fiction about the southern portion of the globe: sexual order defines the character of the state. The book begins by examining how the idea of sexual order operated as the principle for explaining national differences in eighteenth-century contestation between Britain and France. It then traces how, following British and French encounters with Tahiti, the comparison of different national sexual orders formed the basis for two theories of race: race as essential character and race as degeneration
Antipodes · Geography · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · 18th century · Colonies in literature · Comparative Literature · English and French · English Erotic literature · English literature · Enlightenment · Erotic literature · Erotic literature, history and criticism · french · French and English · French Erotic literature · French literature · French literature, history and criticism · Globalization · History · History and criticism · Imperialism in literature · in literature · Oceania · Sex customs in literature · Sex in literature · Travelers' writings · Travelers' writings, English · Travelers' writings, history and criticism
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2021 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |