Desire
Subtitle: a history of european sexuality
By: Anna Clark.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780415775175; 9780415775182
Subjects: Sex -- Europe -- History; Sex customs -- Europe -- History; Desire -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : sex and the problem of Western civilization; title: Sex and the city : Greece and Rome; title: Divine desire in Judaism and early Christianity; title: Medieval fantasies of desire, sacred and profane; title: From twilight moments to moral panics : the regulation of sex from the thirteenth century to the sixteenth century; title: The age of exploration : sexual contact and culture clash in Spain and colonial Mesoamerica; title: Enlightening desire : new attitudes toward sexuality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; title: In the Victorian twilight : sex out-of-wedlock, sexual commerce, and same-sex desire, 1750-1870; title: Boundaries of the nation, boundaries of the self : 1860-1914; title: Managing desire or consuming sex in interwar culture; title: Sex and the state in the 1930s : Sweden, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany; title: The reconstruction of desire and sexual consumerism in postwar Europe.