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C o n t e n t s Note on Translations ix Introduction: Sex and Nation 1 Part I. Sex and Blood 1. “Pathologic Archaeology”: An Introduction 25 2. “Pathologic Genealogy”: Biological Heredity and Medieval Kinship 46 Part II. Sex and Race 3. Symbolic Archaeology: Sex in the Colonies 71 4. Gilles and Joan, Criminal and Genius: Medical Fictions and the Regeneration of the French Race 99 Part III. Sex and Love 5. “Pornographic Archaeology”: An histoire des mœurs 131 6. Courtly Love, Courtly Marriage, and Republican Divorce 163 viii Contents Epilogue. From Pornography to Archaeology: Priapus at the Cluny Museum 188 Notes 199 Bibliography 299 Index 327 Acknowledgments 337 ...

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