A survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present, Desire follows changing attitudes to two major concepts of sexual desire - desire as dangerous, polluting, and disorderly, and desire as creative, transcendent, even revolutionary - through major turning points of European history.
A survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present, Desire follows changing attitudes to two major concepts of sexual desire - desire as dangerous, polluting, and disorderly, and desire as creative, transcendent, even revolutionary - through major turning points of European history.
Anna Clark is the author of Women's Silence, Men's Violence: Sexual Assault in England, 1770-1845 (1987), The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (1995), Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution (2003), and Alternative Histories of the Self: A Cultural History of Sexuality and Secrets (2017). She is a professor at the University of Minnesota, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
List of illustrations Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: sexuality and the problem of western civilization 2 Sex and the city: Greece and Rome 3 Divine desire in ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 4 From twilight moments to moral panics: the regulation of sex from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century 5 The age of exploration: sexual contact and culture clash in Spain and colonial Mesoamerica 6 Enlightening desire: new attitudes toward sexuality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 7 In the Victorian twilight: sex out-of-wedlock, sexual commerce, and same-sex desire, 1750-1870 8 Boundaries of the nation, boundaries of the self, 1860-1914 9 Sex and Imperialism 1857-1939 10 Managing desire or consuming sex in interwar culture 11 Sex and the state in the 1930s: Sweden, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany 12 The reconstruction of desire and sexual consumerism in postwar Europe Index
List of illustrations Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: sexuality and the problem of western civilization 2 Sex and the city: Greece and Rome 3 Divine desire in ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 4 From twilight moments to moral panics: the regulation of sex from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century 5 The age of exploration: sexual contact and culture clash in Spain and colonial Mesoamerica 6 Enlightening desire: new attitudes toward sexuality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 7 In the Victorian twilight: sex out-of-wedlock, sexual commerce, and same-sex desire, 1750-1870 8 Boundaries of the nation, boundaries of the self, 1860-1914 9 Sex and Imperialism 1857-1939 10 Managing desire or consuming sex in interwar culture 11 Sex and the state in the 1930s: Sweden, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany 12 The reconstruction of desire and sexual consumerism in postwar Europe Index
List of illustrations Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: sexuality and the problem of western civilization 2 Sex and the city: Greece and Rome 3 Divine desire in ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 4 From twilight moments to moral panics: the regulation of sex from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century 5 The age of exploration: sexual contact and culture clash in Spain and colonial Mesoamerica 6 Enlightening desire: new attitudes toward sexuality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 7 In the Victorian twilight: sex out-of-wedlock, sexual commerce, and same-sex desire, 1750-1870 8 Boundaries of the nation, boundaries of the self, 1860-1914 9 Sex and Imperialism 1857-1939 10 Managing desire or consuming sex in interwar culture 11 Sex and the state in the 1930s: Sweden, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany 12 The reconstruction of desire and sexual consumerism in postwar Europe Index
List of illustrations Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: sexuality and the problem of western civilization 2 Sex and the city: Greece and Rome 3 Divine desire in ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 4 From twilight moments to moral panics: the regulation of sex from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century 5 The age of exploration: sexual contact and culture clash in Spain and colonial Mesoamerica 6 Enlightening desire: new attitudes toward sexuality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 7 In the Victorian twilight: sex out-of-wedlock, sexual commerce, and same-sex desire, 1750-1870 8 Boundaries of the nation, boundaries of the self, 1860-1914 9 Sex and Imperialism 1857-1939 10 Managing desire or consuming sex in interwar culture 11 Sex and the state in the 1930s: Sweden, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany 12 The reconstruction of desire and sexual consumerism in postwar Europe Index
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