Twentieth-Century Sexuality

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung * Argues against those who see the history of modern sexuality as a tale of liberation* Contends that sexuality is socially constructed and is remade by each generation for its own social and cultural context* Draws on interdisciplinary research. .

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• Authors: Mclaren, Angus Mclaren, Angus (University of Victoria McLaren, Todd Mclaren, McLaren Angus
• Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.1999
• EAN: 9780631208136
• ISBN: 978-0-631-20813-6
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Family, Sexuality, & Social Re; Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Miscellaneous; History of Ideas, Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, 20th Century, North America, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Sociology: family & relationships, Social and cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology: family and relationships, North America (USA and Canada), Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour