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Sex and pleasure in western culture / Gail Hawkes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, England ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Description: vii, 207 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745616704
  • 9780745616704
  • 0745616712
  • 9780745616711
Other title:
  • Sex & pleasure in western culture [Cover title]
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 306.709 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ12 .H385 2004
Contents:
Prologue: the sexual landscape of the new millennium -- Sex pleasure and self-control in classical antiquity -- Sinful sex: early Christianity and the problem of desire -- Guilty sex, courtly love and the unruly body: medieval themes and practices -- Sex, the body and desire in the pre-modern period -- Pleasure and desire in the age of modernity -- Obligatory pleasures and undisciplined desires: the sexual century reviewed.
Summary: A comprehensive overview of desire and pleasure in Western sexual culture. The author argues that both have always been seen as socially disruptive and morally dangerous and offers an entertaining account of the methods by which these attributes of sex were managed across the centuries.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.709 HAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A557137B
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.709 HAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A557138B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: the sexual landscape of the new millennium -- Sex pleasure and self-control in classical antiquity -- Sinful sex: early Christianity and the problem of desire -- Guilty sex, courtly love and the unruly body: medieval themes and practices -- Sex, the body and desire in the pre-modern period -- Pleasure and desire in the age of modernity -- Obligatory pleasures and undisciplined desires: the sexual century reviewed.

A comprehensive overview of desire and pleasure in Western sexual culture. The author argues that both have always been seen as socially disruptive and morally dangerous and offers an entertaining account of the methods by which these attributes of sex were managed across the centuries.

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