Twentieth-Century Sexuality A History

Name: Twentieth-Century Sexuality A History
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ISBN: 9780631208136

ISBN-10: 0631208135

ISBN-13: 9780631208136

Edition: 1999

Authors: Angus McLaren

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Providing a history of sexuality in 20th-century North America and Europe, this text draws upon legal, medical and literary sources to demonstrate how modern sexuality has been shaped by race, class, gender and generational preoccupations.

Book details

List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/8/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 6.05" wide x 8.90" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



'The Cult of the Clitoris': Sexual Panics and the First World War



'Hypersexual Youths': Premarital Sex and the Sex Educators



'Selfish Beasts': Marriage Manuals and the Eroticization of Marriage



'Race Suicide': Birth Control, Abortion and Family Stability



'Perverts': Mannish Women, Effeminate Men and the Sex Doctors



'Frigidity': Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis and Gender



'Compulsory Heterosexuality'




'Surveying Sex'




'Sexual Revolution?': the Pill, Permissiveness and Politics



'Backlash': AIDS and the Sexual Counter-revolution


Conclusion


Notes


Index