Sexuality is an obsessive human concern; it has often been the real subject of cultural, religious, and political discourses that did not dare to mention it or did not have the language for addressing it directly. In order to understand contemporary sexuality this text looks at the past.
Offering a unique look at this controversial subject, Sexuality is the only reader of its kind that organizes material chronologically and covers such a long period. Part I forms a chronological narrative of the development of thinking about sexuality from the ancient Greeks to the present. Part II discusses nineteenth-century investigation of phenomena such as hysteria, prostitution, and fetishism. Part III brings together contemporary conceptions of the sexual body, and Part IV addresses the issue of whether the sexual, revolution of the late sixties and seventies has brought about a permanent change in the sexual landscape of western civilization.
An excellent selection of essays....students will get a lot out of it. Useful across other c.s. modules, too.
