Twentieth-Century Sexuality
Subtitle: A History (Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times)
Publisher: Blackwell Pub
Published: June 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780631208129
Subjects: Family & relationships; Gender studies; History of ideas, intellectual history; Sexual behaviour; Social history; 20th century; Sex Relations; Social Science; Psychology; Sociology; Europe; North America; Human Sexuality; Modern - 20th Century; Sexuality; Sociology - General; History; Sex; Sex (Psychology); Sex customs
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.