The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 3, Sites of Knowledge and Practice

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The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 3, Sites of Knowledge and Practice is written by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108901301 (ISBN 10) and 9781108901307 (ISBN 13).

Volume III provides in-depth analyses of specific times and places in the history of world sexualities, to investigate more closely the lived experience of individuals and groups to reveal the diversity of human sexualities. Comprising twenty-five chapters, this volume covers ancient Athens, Rome, and Constantinople; eighth- and ninth-century Chang'an, ninth- and tenth-century Baghdad, and tenth- through twelfth-century Kyoto; fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Iceland and Florence; sixteenth-century Tenochtitlan, Istanbul, and Geneva; eighteenth-century Edo, Paris, and Philadelphia; nineteenth-century Cairo, London, and Manila; late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lagos, Bombay, Buenos Aires, and Berlin, and twentieth-century Sydney, Toronto, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro. Broad in range, this volume sheds light on continuities and changes in world sexualities across time and space.