Awards
- Winner of Winner of the 1996 Leo Gershoy Award (American His.
Overview
""With great intellectual energy and resourcefulness, [Hull] has placed a new set of issues on our scholarly agenda. After reading Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815, no one will view this period in quite the same way again.""-James H. Sheehan, Times Literary Supplement""Hull analyzes the evolving bureaucratic understanding of heterosexuality during the transition from absolutist moral regulation of sexual practices for the public good to the formation of a bourgeois civil society of privacy and property...[She] offers a remarkable look at the sexual dimension of the liberal social contract and at those whose sexual liberty was assured thereby.""-Choice""Isabel Hull's book is a very rich study, not only in detail and scope, but also in its theoretical implications-for the development of modern ideas of sexuality, for the development of civil society, and for the role of the state in regulating sexual matters of all types. It is bold, risky, often funny, elegant in its argument, beautifully written-and speaks to an audience far beyond its likely specialist readers.""-from the Berkshire Prize citation
Full Product Details
Author: Isabel V. Hull
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.907kg
ISBN: 9780801482533
ISBN 10: 0801482534
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 07 August 1997
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
An unusually creative and important book, its argument is built on research remarkable in breadth and depth and its implications radiate from the focus on sexuality to a great variety of related themes. . . . Sexuality, State, and Civil Society invites skepticism about itself precisely because its author brings such a powerful historical imagination to her subject. It is a book to be welcomed, appreciated, and pondered. -Journal of Modern History
An unusually creative and important book, its argument is built on research remarkable in breadth and depth and its implications radiate from the focus on sexuality to a great variety of related themes. . . . Sexuality, State, and Civil Society invites skepticism about itself precisely because its author brings such a powerful historical imagination to her subject. It is a book to be welcomed, appreciated, and pondered. Journal of Modern History
Author Information
Isabel V. Hull is John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. She is the author of A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War, Absolute Destruction, and Sexuality, State and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815, all from Cornell.
