The History of Sexuality: The use of Pleasure v. 2 (Penguin History) by Michel Foucault |
The History of Sexuality: The Care of the Self: The Care of the Self v. 3 (Penguin History) by Michel Foucault |
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In this text Bernadette Brooten examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing a range of cultural sources, from medical texts to astrological horoscopes, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between women, and discusses the surgical procedure of clitoridectomy as a method of controlling female homoeroticism. She establishes the fact that condemnations of female homoerotic practices were based on widespread awareness of sexual love between women. Contrary to the common scholarly notion that early Christian sexual ethics were fundamentally different from those of the surrounding culture, Brooten contends that early Christians and their Roman neighbours shared a view of the "natural order" of society.
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Early Christianity emerged in a world in which people from various walks of life acknowledged that women could have sexual contact with women. Read the first page
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