Description |
viii, 296 pages ; 23 cm |
Series |
Family, sexuality, and social relations in past times |
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Family, sexuality, and social relations in past times.
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Contents |
1. 'The Cult of the Clitoris': Sexual Panics and the First World War -- 2. 'Hypersexual Youths': Premarital Sex and the Sex Educators -- 3. 'Selfish Beasts': Marriage Manuals and the Eroticization of Marriage -- 4. 'Race Suicide': Birth Control, Abortion and Family Stability -- 5. 'Perverts': Mannish Women, Effeminate Men and the Sex Doctors -- 6. 'Frigidity': Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis and Gender -- 7. 'Compulsory Heterosexuality': Eugenicists, Fascists and Nazis -- 8. 'Surveying Sex': From Alfred C. Kinsey to Hugh Hefner -- 9. 'Sexual Revolution?': the Pill, Permissiveness and Politics -- 10. 'Backlash': AIDS and the Sexual Counter-revolution |
Summary |
"This book provides a history of sexuality in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Angus McLaren draws upon legal, medical and literary sources to demonstrate how modern sexuality has been shaped by race, class, gender and generational."--BOOK JACKET |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page) and index |
Notes |
English |
Subject |
Sex (Psychology)
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Sex (Psychology) -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex and history.
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Sex customs -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex -- 20th century.
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Sexual ethics -- History -- 20th century.
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Social history -- 20th century.
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Sex -- history
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Sexual Behavior -- history.
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LC no. |
98033145 |
ISBN |
0631208127 |
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0631208135 |
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