Histories of Sexuality

Antiquity to Sexual Revolution

Stephen Garton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

326 Seiten

2004
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-97229-1 (ISBN)

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A history of sexuality runs the risk of confirming popular fears that academics are capable of ruining even the most simple of pleasures. This book, however, is written in the hope that histories of sexuality (although not necessarily this one) can enlighten and, occasionally, even delight. At their best such histories offer a means of investigating the clash of instinct and culture — how seemingly timeless and natural behaviours shape and are in turn shaped by history. Sexual practices may persist through time but history also illuminates how sex and sexuality are surprisingly mutable. This capacity of history to unsettle and surprise is evident in many of the works discussed here. In less than 40 years the history of sexuality, as a definable area of scholarly enterprise, has grown from a few works describing past attitudes and behaviours into an enormously rich field that sustains its own journal, a number of monograph series and countless seminars, conferences, articles and books. Moreover, this field has moved well beyond accounts of exotic ideas and strange obsessions to embrace sophisticated analyses of such issues as subjectivity, identity, power, desire, gender and embodiment. Through these studies we now have a much more detailed account of past sexual ideas, beliefs, practices, fantasies and struggles.

Stephen Garton is Challis Professor of History at The University of Sydney and is a Fellow of the Australian academies of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Currently the Dean of the Faculty of Arts he is the author of Medicine and Madness (1988), Out of Luck (1990) and The Cost of War (1996).

Preface1. Writing Sexual History2. Rule of the Phallus3. Sexual Austerity4. Christian Friendships5. Making Heterosexuality6. Victorianism7. Dominance and Desire8. Feminism and Friendship9. Imagining Perversion10. Normalising Sexuality11. Sexual RevolutionEpilogue

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.6.2011
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	760 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-415-97229-9 / 0415972299
ISBN-13	978-0-415-97229-1 / 9780415972291
Zustand	Neuware