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Gender, pleasure, and violence : the construction of expert knowledge of sexuality in Poland /

"Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West. While Polish citizens undoubtedly suffered under the oppressive totalitarianism of socialism, abortion was legal, clear laws protected victims of rape, and it was relatively easy t...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Kościańska, Agnieszka (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Rozmysłowicz, Marta (Traducteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Polaco
Publié: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]
Collection:New anthropologies of Europe.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Part 1. Sexology and society. The development of sexology and sexual rights activism in Europe and the United States
  • The Polish school of sexology
  • Part 2. Pleasure: toward good sex. Sexuality and scientific knowledge
  • "Civilized" sex and gender relations under socialism
  • Gender and pleasure in expert discourse today
  • Part 3. Violence: expert discourse of rape. Rape: definitions, legal understanding,and statistics
  • The provocative victim and the male limits of self-restraint: stereotypes in expert literature
  • In the courtroom
  • Feminism: changes in expert discourse and in the courtroom.