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OverviewA history of sexuality runs the risk of confirming popular fears that academics are capable of ruining even the most simple of pleasures. This book, however, is written in the hope that histories of sexuality (although not necessarily this one) can enlighten and, occasionally, even delight. At their best such histories offer a means of investigating the clash of instinct and culture — how seemingly timeless and natural behaviours shape and are in turn shaped by history. Sexual practices may persist through time but history also illuminates how sex and sexuality are surprisingly mutable. This capacity of history to unsettle and surprise is evident in many of the works discussed here. In less than 40 years the history of sexuality, as a definable area of scholarly enterprise, has grown from a few works describing past attitudes and behaviours into an enormously rich field that sustains its own journal, a number of monograph series and countless seminars, conferences, articles and books. Moreover, this field has moved well beyond accounts of exotic ideas and strange obsessions to embrace sophisticated analyses of such issues as subjectivity, identity, power, desire, gender and embodiment. Through these studies we now have a much more detailed account of past sexual ideas, beliefs, practices, fantasies and struggles. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen GartonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.760kg ISBN: 9780415972291ISBN 10: 0415972299 Pages: 326 Publication Date: 02 November 2004 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface1. Writing Sexual History2. Rule of the Phallus3. Sexual Austerity4. Christian Friendships5. Making Heterosexuality6. Victorianism7. Dominance and Desire8. Feminism and Friendship9. Imagining Perversion10. Normalising Sexuality11. Sexual RevolutionEpilogueReviewsAuthor InformationStephen Garton is Challis Professor of History at The University of Sydney and is a Fellow of the Australian academies of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Currently the Dean of the Faculty of Arts he is the author of Medicine and Madness (1988), Out of Luck (1990) and The Cost of War (1996). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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