Sexual Revolutions [electronic resource] /
Hekma, G.editor.
Giami, A.editor.
Sexual Revolutions explores the sexual revolution of the late twentieth century in several European countries and the USA by engaging with themes from sexual freedom and abortion to pornography and sexual variation. This work discusses the involvement of youth, feminism, left, liberalism, arts, science and religion in the process of sexual change.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1 Sexual Revolutions: An Introduction; 2 Sexual Liberalism in Sweden; 3 The Long Sexual Revolution: The Police and the New Gay Man; 4 A Radical Break with a Puritanical Past: The Dutch Case; 5 Catholics and Sexual Change in Flanders; 6 The Long History of the ''Sexual Revolution'' in West Germany; 7 Sexual Revolution(s) in Britain; 8 The Revival of Sexuality Studies in France in the Late 1950s; 9 Therapies of Sexual Liberation: Society, Sex and Self
10 ''Something Much Bigger than Lust or the Struggle for Homosexuality'': The Ambivalent Sexual Emancipation of Daniel Guérin11 The Gay Liberation Movement in France; 12 Pornography, Perversity and the Sexual Revolution; 13 ''Sex Freedom Girls Speak Out''. Women in Sexual Revolution; 14 The Sexual Revolution in the USSR: Dynamics Beneath the Ice; 15 Abortion, Christianity, Disability: Western Europe, 1960s-1970s; 16 Pedophilia, Homosexuality and Gay and Lesbian Activism; Select Bibliography on Sexual Revolutions; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sexual Revolutions explores the sexual revolution of the late twentieth century in several European countries and the USA by engaging with themes from sexual freedom and abortion to pornography and sexual variation. This work discusses the involvement of youth, feminism, left, liberalism, arts, science and religion in the process of sexual change.
Civilization-History.
Social history.
History, Modern.
Europe-History.
Russia-History.
Europe, Eastern-History.
America-History.
Cultural History.
Social History.
Modern History.
European History.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
History of the Americas.