Desire : a history of European sexuality

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Desire : a history of European sexuality

Anna Clark

Routledge, 2008

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Introduction : sex and the problem of Western civilization
  • Sex and the city : Greece and Rome
  • Divine desire in Judaism and early Christianity
  • Medieval fantasies of desire, sacred and profane
  • From twilight moments to moral panics : the regulation of sex from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century
  • The age of exploration : sexual contact and culture clash in Spain and colonial Mesoamerica
  • Enlightening desire : new attitudes toward sexuality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  • In the Victorian twilight : sex out-of-wedlock, sexual commerce, and same-sex desire, 1750-1870
  • Boundaries of the nation, boundaries of the self : 1860-1914
  • Managing desire or consuming sex in interwar culture
  • Sex and the state in the 1930s : Sweden, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany
  • The reconstruction of desire and sexual consumerism in postwar Europe

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