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Book Title: Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice: The Disease that Came to Stay (Early Modern History: Society and Culture) Book Author: Laura J. McGough Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture Hardcover: 232 pages Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (January 4, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0230252923 ISBN-13: 978-0230252929 Book Description Release date: January 4, 2011 | ISBN-10: 0230252923 | ISBN-13: 978-0230252929 A unique study of how syphilis, better known as the French disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, became so widespread and embedded in the society, culture and institutions of early modern Venice due to the pattern of sexual relations that developed from restrictive marital customs, widespread migration and male privilege.  About the Author LAURA MCGOUGH Lecturer in the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Ghana. She undertook postdoctoral training in sexually transmitted diseases at Johns Hopkins University after completing her Ph.D. at Northwestern University in History, and has worked as a consultant for HIV/AIDS projects for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), WHO, and other organizations. Sharing WidgetAll Comments |
If a marble statue could by the stimuli of its beauty so penetrate to the marrow of a young man, that he stained himself, then, what must she do who is of flesh, who is beauty personified and appears to be breathing? Quotation from page 54. The marble statue in reference is probably the Cnidian Venus of Praxiteles (also known as the Modest Venus or Venus Pudica).
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