Twentieth-Century Sexuality
Subtitle: A History (Family, Sexuality, and Social Relations in Past Times)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited; Blackwell
Published: August 1, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780631208136
First sentence: In June of 1918, a libel suit fought out in London's Central Criminal Court brought to the surface the bizarre rumour that sex-starved English women, deprived by the war of male companionship, were turning to lesbianism.
Description: "This book provides a history of sexuality in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Angus McLaren draws upon legal, medical and literary sources to demonstrate how modern sexuality has been shaped by race, class, gender and generational."--Jacket.