Sex Education In Eighteenth-Century France

• Shane Agin, Introduction: sex education in eighteenth-century FranceI. RegulationJean Bloch, Perdition, degeneration or legitimate pleasure? Eighteenth-century French education and the subject of sexAllan H. Pasco, Miss Manners and fooling around: conduct manuals and sexual mores in eighteenth-century FrancePaul Scott, Rites of wrong: confessors’ manuals and sins of the flesh in eighteenth-century FranceKathryn A. Hoffmann, Curing masturbation with a bath, a straitjacket or a wax museum: the strategies of Tissot, Bienville and Bertrand-RivalII. Reflection and evaluationJean M. Goulemot, Sex education in early modern utopian literature: an investigation into the marginsMatthew Lauzon, Dangerous educations and factitious puberties: the enlightening lessons of foreign loveShane Agin, The construction and education of the sexualised subject in RousseauCecilia Feilla, Correspondence school for lovers: epistolary exchange and sexual education in Restif de la Bretonne’s Le Nouvel AbeilardIII. Narratives of education, initiation and discoveryDidier Masseau, Representations of sexual awakening in eighteenth-century memoirsChris Roulston, Female education and sex education in Choderlos de Laclos’s Les Liaisons dangereusesJean-Christophe Abramovici, The comedy of ignorance: scenes of sexual initiation in early modern pornographic literatureJuliette Cherbuliez, The science of seduction: libertinism’s privileged spheres of knowingJames Grantham Turner, Sexual awakening as radical Enlightenment: arousal and ontogeny in Buffon and La MettrieSummariesBibliographyIndex

This well-structured book has three sections, each examining contributions to sex education in a different domain. It guides readers through its topic like a pyramid, with a comprehensive foundation followed by an ever more narrow focus in subsequent sections.- French Review