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Transformation of Intimacy Sexuality, Love, and Eroticism in Modern Societies

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ISBN-10: 0804722145

ISBN-13: 9780804722148

Edition: 1992

Authors: Anthony Giddens

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The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does “sexuality” come into being, and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life more generally? In answering these questions, the author disputes many of the dominant interpretations of the role of sexuality in modern culture. The author suggests that the revolutionary changes in which sexuality has become cauth up are more long-term than generally conceded. He sees them as intrinsic to the development of modern societies as a whole and to the broad characteristics of that development. Sexuality as we know it today is a creation of modernity, a terrain upon which…    
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Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 10/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Anthony Giddens, a British sociologist, was educated at Hull, the London School of Economics, and Cambridge, and is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. His interests have been varied, but they tend to focus on questions related to the macro-order. Much of his theoretical writing deals with stratification, class, and modernity. Although he has concentrated on dynamic issues of social structure, he has also examined how social psychological concerns are part of this broader order of human relations.

Preface
Introduction
Everyday Experiments, Relationships, Sexuality
Foucault on Sexuality
Romantic Love and Other Attachments
Love, Commitment and the Pure Relationship
Love, Sex and Other Addictions
The Sociological Meaning of Codependence
Personal Turbulence, Sexual Troubles
Contradictions of the Pure Relationship
Sexuality, Repression, Civilisation
Intimacy as Democracy
Index