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