| Description |
viii, 296 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Family, sexuality, and social relations in past times |
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Family, sexuality, and social relations in past times.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This book provides a 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."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 'The cult of the clitoris': sexual panics and the First World War -- 'Hypersexual youths': premarital sex and sex education -- 'Selfish beasts': marriage manuals and the eroticization of marriage -- 'Race suicide': birth control, abortion and family stability -- 'Perverts": mannish women, effeminate men and the sex doctors -- 'Frigidity': Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis and gender -- 'Compulsory heterosexuality': eugenicists, Fascists and Nazis -- 'Surveying sex': from Alfred C. Kinsey to Hugh Hefner -- 'Sexual revolution?': the pill, permissiveness and politics -- 'Backlash': AIDS and the sexual counter-revolution -- Conclusion. |
| Processing Action |
Self-Renewing 2017 UoY |
| Subject |
Sex customs -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex (Psychology) -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex and history.
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Sex -- history
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Sexual Behavior -- history. (DNLM)D012725Q000266
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Sex. (OCoLC)fst01114160
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Sex and history. (OCoLC)fst01114251
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Sex customs. (OCoLC)fst01114306
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Sex (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01114228
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Seksualiteit.
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Sexualverhalten (DE-588)4116485-4
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1900-2000.
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1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0631208127 (hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780631208129 (hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0631208135 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780631208136 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780631208136 |
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