Chapter 5. What’s Wrong? Silence, Speech, and the Problema of Sodomy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: The Natural Philosophy of Sodomites and Their Kind 1
4. Chapter 1. Moved by Nature 35
5. Chapter 2. Habit Is a Kind of Nature 73
6. Chapter 3. “Just Like a Woman”: Passivity, Defect, and Insatiability 106
7. Chapter 4. “Beyond the Boundaries of Vice”: Moral Science and Natural Philosophy 139
8. Chapter 5. What’s Wrong? Silence, Speech, and the Problema of Sodomy 176
9. Epilogue 203
10. Appendix. Pietro d’Abano, Expositio Problematum Aristotelis, IV.26: A Text 207
11. List of Abbreviations 219
12. Notes 221
13. Manuscripts Consulted 287
14. Works Cited 293
15. Index 315
16. Acknowledgments 325