Desire : a history of European sexuality / Anna Clark.

Author/creator Clark, Anna
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York ; London : Routledge, 2008.
Descriptionix, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008005397
ISBN9780415775175 (hardcover)
ISBN9780415775182 (pbk.)
ISBN0415775175 (hardcover)
ISBN0415775183 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ18.E8 C53 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold