Desire : a history of European sexuality / Anna Clark.
| Author/creator | Clark, Anna |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York ; London : Routledge, 2008. |
| Description | ix, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : sex 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2008005397 |
| ISBN | 9780415775175 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780415775182 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0415775175 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0415775183 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HQ18.E8 C53 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |