Author : Jeffrey Weeks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745669085
Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality.
Author : Jeffrey Weeks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1509508880
Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream and producing innovative insights into the ways in which societies shape and are shaped by sexual values, norms, identities and desires. In this book, Jeffrey Weeks, one of the leading international scholars in the subject, sets out clearly and concisely how sexual history has developed, and its implications for our understanding of the ways we live today. The emergence of a new wave of feminism and lesbian and gay activism in the 1970s transformed the subject, heavily influenced by new trends in social and cultural history, radical sociological insights and the impact of Michel Foucault’s work. The result was an increasing emphasis on the historical shaping of sexuality, and on the existence of many different sexual meanings and cultures on a global scale. With chapters on, amongst others, lesbian, gay and queer history, feminist sexual history, the mainstreaming of sexual history, and the globalization of sexual history, What is Sexual History? is an indispensable guide to these developments.
Author : David Allyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1134934734
When Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl hit bookstores in 1962, the sexual revolution was launched and there was no turning back. Soon came the pill, the end of censorship, the advent of feminism, and the rise of commercial pornography. Our daily lives changed in an unprecedented time of sexual openness and experimentation. Make Love, Not War is the first serious treatment of the complicated events, ideas, and personalities that drove the sexual revolution forward. Based on first-hand accounts, diaries, interviews, and period research, it traces changes in private lives and public discourse from the fearful fifties to the first tremors of rebellion in the early sixties to the heady heyday of the revolution. Bringing a fresh perspective to the turbulence of these decades, David Allyn argues that the sexual revolutionaries of the '60s and '70s, by telling the truth about their own histories and desires, forced all Americans to re-examine the very meaning of freedom. Written with a historian's attention to nuance and a novelist's narrative drive, Make Love, Not War is a provocative, vivid, and thoughtful account of one of the most captivating episodes in American history. Also includes an 8-page insert.
Author : Thomas Laqueur
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 1992-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674543553
History of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns by describing the developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology.
Author : Josh Sides
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0199874069
How San Francisco became America's capital of sexual libertinism and a potent symbol in its culture wars
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 1990-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0679724699
Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality—from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century. Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.
Author : Magnus Hirschfeld
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781410225405
CONTENTS: Introduction The Release of Sexual Restraints War Wives and Immorality Eroticism of Nurses Sensuality in the Trenches Venereal Diseases Women Soldiers and Female Battalions Homosexuality and Transvestitism Regulation of Army Brothels Prostitution Behind the Lines Lust in the Conquered Areas Civilian Debauchery Back Home Genital Injuries, War Eunuchs, Etc. Sex Life of War Prisoners Amatory Adventures of Female Spies Eroticism Behind Military Drill Propaganda and Sex Lies The Bestialization of Man Sadism, Rape, and Other Atrocities Post-War Revolution and Sexuality Appendix-U.S. Starts Cleanup of Camp Followers
Author : Stephen Garton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317489012
This book presents the first assessment of one of the most rapidly expanding fields of research: the history of sexuality. From the early efforts of historians to work out a model for sexual history, to the extraordinary impact of French philosopher Michel Foucault, to the vigorous debates about essentialism and social constructionism, to the emergence of contemporary debates about historicism, queer theory, embodiment, gender and cultural history - we now have vast and diverse historical scholarship on sex and sexuality. 'Histories of Sexuality' highlights the key historical moments and issues: pederasty and cultures of male passivity in ancient Greece and Rome; the impact of early Christianity and ideals of renunciation on the sexual cultures of late antiquity; the sustained existence of homosexual cultures in medieval and renaissance Europe; the "invention" of homosexuality and heterosexuality in eighteenth century Europe and America; the truth behind Victorian sexual repression; the work of reformers and scientists such as Havelock Ellis, Marie Stopes, Stella Browne, Margaret Sanger, Alfred Kinsey, William Masters and Virginia Johnson.
Author : Kim M. Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1135304769
Over the past twenty years, historians have overturned nearly everything we once took for granted about human sexuality. Gender, sexual orientation, "deviance," and even the biology of sex have been unmasked for what they are-historically specific, culturally contested, and above all, unstable constructions.
Author : Christian Klesse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317014928
Wide-ranging research suggests that partners in gay male and bisexual relationships do not necessarily expect monogamy, or see it as an important issue. Although the frequency of gay male and bisexual non-monogamous partnerships tends to be widely acknowledged in social science literature, these relationships have rarely been explored in more detail. By providing rich empirical data, thoughtful analysis and theoretical debate, this book makes a significant contribution to the sociological literature on sexual and intimate relationships. More specifically it explores the diversity of gay male and bisexual relationship practices in the context of heteronormative citizenship and intra-social movement conflict, and highlights the complexity of power relations that circumscribe queer people's relationships and sexual lives. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, The Spectre of Promiscuity provides important insights for further studies on sexual culture, discourse, citizenship, politics and ethics.
