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Sexuality and Its Discontents - Meanings, Myths, and Modern Sexualities (Paperback, Revised)
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Sexuality and Its Discontents - Meanings, Myths, and Modern Sexualities (Paperback, Revised)
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Few topics evoke so much anxiety and pleasure, pain and hope,
discussion and silence as sexuality. Throughout the Christian era
it has been a major moral preoccupation. Since the eighteenth
century it has also been the focus of 'scientific' exploration and
political activity. But, despite this obsessive concern, we are
still as baffled as our predecessors about the 'true' meaning of
sex. In this book Jeffrey Weeks unravels the dense web of
historical, theoretical and political forces that have culminated
in the contemporary crisis of sexual meanings and values. The book
begins with a powerful evocation of our present discontents and
their potent signs: the rise of the New Right, the retreat of
progressive forces and a wave of moral panics around sex. It argues
that this crisis is rooted in a tradition which has ascribed an
inflated importance to sexuality, whilst claiming a privileged
access to truth. The author then examines radical debates of recent
years, and asks whether they contain the potentiality for taking us
beyond the existing boundaries of sexuality. From this analysis
emerges a controversial 'radical pluralist' approach to sexuality
built on an acceptance of diversity and choice. By linking our
present discontents to a clear understanding of the past, Jeffrey
Weeks presents a rational, optimistic and challenging vision of a
realizable future.
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