Sexuality in world history
By: Peter N. Stearns.
Series: Themes in world history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780415777766; 9780415777773; 9780203880326
Subjects: Sex -- History
Description: Examining sexuality in the past, and exploring how it helps explain sexuality in the present, this work uses a chronological structure to focus on major patterns and changes in sexuality in the main periods of world history, with comparison and discussion across cultures and societies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The whys and hows of sex history; title: Sexuality and the rise of agriculture; title: Sexuality in the classical period; title: The impact of religion on sexuality, to 1450; title: Sex in an age of trade and colonies; title: Western society, 1750-1950 : a first sexual revolution and the victorian response; title: Global trends and variations in the age of imperialism; title: Sex in contemporary world history.