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Sexuality / edited by Robert A. Nye.

Title
Sexuality / edited by Robert A. Nye.
Publication
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors
Nye, Robert A.
Description
xvii, 503 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Sexuality is an obsessive human concern; it has often been the real subject of cultural, religious, and political discourses which did not address it directly. In order to understand contemporary sexuality this text considers the past.
Series Statement
Oxford readers
Uniform Title
Oxford readers
Subject
  • Sex > History
  • Sex customs > History
  • Sex (Psychology) > History
  • Sex and history
  • Sexual Behavior > history
  • Sexualité et histoire
  • Vie sexuelle > Histoire
  • Sexualité (Psychologie) > Histoire
  • Sexualité > Histoire
  • Sex
  • Sex customs
  • Sex (Psychology)
  • Seksualiteit
  • Sexualité > Histoire
  • Sexualité (psychologie) > Histoire
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 472-474) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
I. Before 'sexuality.' -- The ancient world. -- Early Christianity. -- The Middle Ages. -- The Renaissance and religious reform. -- Enlightenment and revolution. -- Up from the beast: the triumph of Middle-class sexuality. -- II. The discovery of 'sexuality' at the turn of the century. -- Doctors and sexual disorders. -- Hysteria. -- Prostitution. -- Masturbation. -- The perversions. -- Inversion. -- Sadism. -- Masochism. -- Fetishism. -- Exhibitionism. -- Freud and psychoanalysis. -- Heterosexuality. -- III. The Twentieth-century sexual body. -- The evolution of sex. -- Hermaphroditism/intersexuality. -- The discovery of hormones. -- Developmental biology and psychology. -- The physiology of sexual function. -- Transsexuality. -- The gay gene and the sexual brain. -- IV. Sexual revolution? -- Pioneers of sex reform. -- Second wave sexology. -- Stripping off. -- Coming out. -- A golden age for pornography? -- AIDS. -- Sex surveys: have we returned to normal?
ISBN
  • 0192880195
  • 9780192880192
LCCN
  • 98031709
  • 9780192880192
OCLC
  • 40073826
  • SCSB-12257271
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library