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Histories of Sexuality - Antiquity to Sexual Revolution (Hardcover)
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Histories of Sexuality - Antiquity to Sexual Revolution (Hardcover)
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A history of sexuality runs the risk of confirming popular fears
that academics are capable of ruining even the most simple of
pleasures. This book, however, is written in the hope that
histories of sexuality (although not necessarily this one) can
enlighten and, occasionally, even delight. At their best such
histories offer a means of investigating the clash of instinct and
culture - how seemingly timeless and natural behaviours shape and
are in turn shaped by history. Sexual practices may persist through
time but history also illuminates how sex and sexuality are
surprisingly mutable. This capacity of history to unsettle and
surprise is evident in many of the works discussed here. In less
than 40 years the history of sexuality, as a definable area of
scholarly enterprise, has grown from a few works describing past
attitudes and behaviours into an enormously rich field that
sustains its own journal, a number of monograph series and
countless seminars, conferences, articles and books. Moreover, this
field has moved well beyond accounts of exotic ideas and strange
obsessions to embrace sophisticated analyses of such issues as
subjectivity, identity, power, desire, gender and embodiment.
Through these studies we now have a much more detailed account of
past sexual ideas, beliefs, practices, fantasies and struggles.
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