| Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History Contributor(s): McLaren, Angus (Author) |
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ISBN: 0631208135 ISBN-13: 9780631208136 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $56.38 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1999 Annotation: This book provides a fascinating history of sexuality in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Angus McLaren draws upon legal, medical and literary sources to demonstrate how modern sexuality has been shaped by race, class, gender and generational preoccupations. He explores why the century was punctuated by sexual panics over a range of issues from abortion, contraception and marital disharmony to frigidity, homosexuality and AIDS. By scrutinizing the activities of sexologists, psychoanalysts, eugenicists, feminists and fascists - as well as the ordinary men and women they sought to influence - this book tracks the shifting meanings the western world has given to sexuality. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) - History | Modern - 20th Century - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 306.709 |
| LCCN: 98033145 |
| Series: Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.90 lbs) 306 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book provides a fascinating history of sexuality in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Angus McLaren draws upon legal, medical and literary sources to demonstrate how modern sexuality has been shaped by race, class, gender and generational preoccupations. |