Sexuality in Europe : a twentieth-century history /
"This is a fascinating and accessible new account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise of European Islam. Although the twentieth century is often called 'the century of sex' and seen as an era of inc...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Colección: | New approaches to European history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Reconceiving sexuality, 1900-1914 : Prostitution, venereal disease, and the double standard
- Theorizing desire
- Separating sex from reproduction : contraception and abortion
- Eugenics
- Rethinking sexual orientation
- 2. State interventions, 1914-1945 : World War I and its aftermath : violence and opportunity
- Facism : masculinism and reproduction
- Nazism : human engineering and the promise of pleasure
- Democratic welfare states : liberality and ambivalence
- Holocaust and World War II
- 3. Cold War cultures, 1945-1965 : Mass violence and the return to domesticity
- Conservatism, east and west
- The rise of romance
- Ambivalence about contraception
- The persecution of homosexuals
- The rise of reform
- 4. Pleasure and rebellion, 1965-1980 : The market of desire
- Revolutionary theories
- Changing the law
- Heterosexual disillusionment
- Homosexual liberation
- The turn inward
- 5. Partnerships and practices, 1980-2010 : HIV/AIDS
- The fall of communism
- Postfacist lessons in human rights
- Islam and the sexual borders of Europe
- Romantic liberality versus new conservatisms.