| Tóm tắt: | Did ‘sex education’ actually exist in eighteenth-century France? Shaped by competing currents of religious dogma, atheist materialism and bourgeois morality, eighteenth-century France marked the beginning of what Michel Foucault called ‘une fermentation discursive’ on matters related to sex. But when we consult the educational theorists or <em>philosophes</em> of the time for their opinions on preparing a young person for life as a sexual being, we are met with a telling silence. Did an Enlightenment era that dared to make sex an object of discourse also dare to make it an object of pedagogy? <br/> <em>Sex education in eighteenth-century France</em> brings together specialists from a range of disciplines to address these issues. Using a wide variety of literary, historical, religious and pedagogical sources, contributors explore for the first time the nexus between sex and instruction. Although these two categories were <em>publicly </em>kept distinct, writers were effectively shaping attitudes and behaviours. Unraveling the complex system of rules and codes through which knowledge about sex was communicated, contributors uncover a new dimension in the practice of education in the eighteenth century. <br/><br/> Shane Agin, Introduction: sex education in eighteenth-century France<br/> I. Regulation<br/> Jean Bloch, Perdition, degeneration or legitimate pleasure? Eighteenth-century French education and the subject of sex<br/> Allan H. Pasco, Miss Manners and fooling around: conduct manuals and sexual mores in eighteenth-century France<br/> Paul Scott, Rites of wrong: confessors’ manuals and sins of the flesh in eighteenth-century France<br/> Kathryn A. Hoffmann, Curing masturbation with a bath, a straitjacket or a wax museum: the strategies of Tissot, Bienville and Bertrand-Rival<br/> II. Reflection and evaluation<br/> Jean M. Goulemot, Sex education in early modern utopian literature: an investigation into the margins<br/> Matthew Lauzon, Dangerous educations and factitious puberties: the enlightening lessons of foreign love<br/> Shane Agin, The construction and education of the sexualised subject in Rousseau<br/> Cecilia Feilla, Correspondence school for lovers: epistolary exchange and sexual education in Restif de la Bretonne’s <em>Le Nouvel Abeilard</em><br/> III. Narratives of education, initiation and discovery<br/> Didier Masseau, Representations of sexual awakening in eighteenth-century memoirs<br/> Chris Roulston, Female education and sex education in Choderlos de Laclos’s <em>Les Liaisons dangereuses</em><br/> Jean-Christophe Abramovici, The comedy of ignorance: scenes of sexual initiation in early modern pornographic literature<br/> Juliette Cherbuliez, The science of seduction: libertinism’s privileged spheres of knowing<br/> James Grantham Turner, Sexual awakening as radical Enlightenment: arousal and ontogeny in Buffon and La Mettrie<br/> Summaries<br/> Bibliography<br/> Index<br/>
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