Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture

Hawkes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2004
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-1671-1 (ISBN)

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* has a comprehensive sweep, employing material from a wide range of contemporary and historical sources. * identifies connecting themes between historical periods and therefore clarifies present complexities in sexual culture.

Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture provides the first comprehensive overview of desire and pleasure in western sexual culture. It argues that both have always been seen as socially disruptive and morally dangerous and offers an account of the methods by which these attributes of sex were managed through history.

Gail Hawkes is Lecturer in Sociology at University of New England, Armidale, Australia

Introduction. Prologue: The sexual landscape of the new millennium. Chapter 1: Sex Pleasure And Self-- Control In Classical Antiquity. Chapter 2: Sinful Sex: Early Christianity And The Problem Of Desire. Chapter 3: Guilty Sex, Courtly Love And The Unruly Body: Medieval Themes And Practices. Chapter 4: Sex, The Body And Desire In The Pre--Modern Period. Chapter Five: Pleasure And Desire In The Age Of Modernity. Chapter 6: Obligatory Pleasures And Undisciplined Desires: The Sexual Century Reviewed. Epilogue: Themes And Reflections. References and Bibliography. Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.5.2004
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 227 mm
Gewicht	316 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7456-1671-2 / 0745616712
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-1671-1 / 9780745616711
Zustand	Neuware