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Let's talk about sex : histories of sexuality in Australia from Federation to the pill /

From the start of the new Australian nation in 1901, to the use of the female contraceptive pill in 1961, Let's Talk About Sex explores the ways sexuality has been constructed, understood and experienced in Australia. Far from being something hidden and private, this work brings sexuality out i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Featherstone, Lisa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Let's Talk About Sex
  • Chapter One. Morality and Motherhood: Concepts of Female Sexuality
  • Chapter Two. Excess and Constraint: The Challenges of Male Sexuality
  • Chapter Three. Sexuality and Race: Desire in Black and White
  • Chapter Four. The Great War on Venereal Disease: Sexuality, Sores and Shaping the Race
  • Chapter Five. Talking about (Hetero)Sex: Educating the Marie Stopes Generation
  • Chapter Six. Racing Towards Whiteness: Birth Control, Sexuality and Race in the Interwar Years
  • Chapter Seven. Pathology and Perversity, Pleasure and Pain
  • Chapter Eight. The Multiple Moral Panics of World War II
  • Chapter Nine. Heterosexuality, Homosexuality and the "Happy, Harmonious" 1950s
  • Chapter Ten. Dancing and Romancing: Sex and the New Teen Body
  • Conclusions: Sex in the Age of the Female Contraceptive Pill.