Desire A History of European Sexuality

Name: Desire A History of European Sexuality
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ISBN: 9780415775182

ISBN-10: 0415775183

ISBN-13: 9780415775182

Edition: 2008

Authors: Anna Clark

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Desire: A History of European Sexuality is a sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present day. It traces two concepts of sexual desire that have competed in European history: desire as dangerous, polluting, and disorderly; and desire as creative, transcendent, even revolutionary. This book follows these changing attitudes toward sexuality through the major turning points of European history. The book ends by demonstrating that western European sexual culture is quite distinct from many other cultures, as the Christian hostility to sexual desire has lost influence. At the same time, the vision of sexual desire as revolutionary seems to have faded. Written in a lively…

Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments



Introduction: sexuality and the problem of western civilization



Sex and the city: Greece and Rome



Divine desire in Judaism and early Christianity



Medieval fantasies of desire, sacred and profane



From twilight moments to moral panics: the regulation of sex from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century



The age of exploration: sexual contact and culture clash in Spain and colonial Mesoamerica



Enlightening desire: new attitudes toward sexuality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries



In the Victorian twilight: sex out-of-wedlock, sexual commerce, and same-sex desire, 1750-1870



Boundaries of the nation, boundaries of the self, 1860-1914



Managing desire or consuming sex in interwar culture



Sex and the state in the 1930s: Sweden, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany



The reconstruction of desire and sexual consumerism in postwar Europe


Notes


Index