Twentieth–Century Sexuality – A History
A History
Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>1. ′The Cult of the Clitoris′: Sexual Panics and the First World War.</p>
<p>2. ′Hypersexual Youths′: Premarital Sex and the Sex Educators.</p>
<p>3. ′Selfish Beasts′: Marriage Manuals and the Eroticization of Marriage.</p>
<p>4. ′Race Suicide′: Birth Control, Abortion and Family Stability.</p>
<p>5. ′Perverts′: Mannish Women, Effeminate Men and the Sex Doctors.</p>
<p>6. ′Frigidity′: Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis and Gender.</p>
<p>7. ′Compulsory Heterosexuality′: Eugenicists, Fascists and Nazis.</p>
<p>8. ′Surveying Sex′: From Alfred C. Kinsey to Hugh Hefner.</p>
<p>9. ′Sexual Revolution?′: the Pill, Permissiveness and Politics.</p>
<p>10. ′Backlash′: AIDS and the Sexual Counter–revolution.</p>
<p>Conclusion.</p>
<p>Notes.</p>
<p>Index.</p>

