Eroticism and the body politic / edited by Lynn Hunt.

Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1991], ©1991.

242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Fragonard's erotic mothers and the politics of reproduction / Mary Sheriff -- The political economy of the body in the Liaisons dangereuses of Choderlos de Laclos / Anne Deneys -- The diamond necklace affair revisited (1785-1786) : the case of the missing queen / Sarah Maza -- Political exposures : sexuality and caricature in the French Revolution / Vivian Cameron -- The many bodies of Marie Antoinette : political pornography and the problem of the feminine in the French Revolution / Lynn Hunt -- The social body : disorder and ritual in Sade's Story of Juliette / Lucienne Frappier-Mazur -- The "new woman," feminism, and the decorative arts in fin-de-siècle France / Debora Silverman -- Splitting hairs : female fetishism and postpartum sentimentality in the fin de siècle / Emily Apter -- Rodin's reputation / Anne M. Wagner.

Includes bibliographical references.