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Gail Hawkes - Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture - 9780745616704 - V9780745616704
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Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture

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Description for Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture Hardback. Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture provides the first comprehensive overview of desire and pleasure in western sexual culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JH; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture provides the first comprehensive overview of desire and pleasure in western sexual culture. It argues that both have always been seen as socially disruptive and morally dangerous and offers an entertaining account of the methods by which these attributes of sex were managed across the centuries from Classical Antiquity to the present day.

The book develops the hypothesis that, while expressed in very different social contexts, sexual pleasure has evoked very similar anxieties. The text draws on historical, cultural, sociological and contemporary sources and is easily accessible for both the general reader and ... Read more

The book will provide a compelling read for both students of sexuality and lay readers who find the complexities of human sexuality a source of fascination.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745616704
SKU
V9780745616704
Shipping Time
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About Gail Hawkes
Gail Hawkes is Lecturer in Sociology at University of New England, Armidale, Australia

Reviews for Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture
“This volume is convincingly and engagingly written as a whole, [but] Hawkes is at her best when she focuses on the 'Sexual Century', the last hundred years with its apparent explosion of pleasures rapidly channeled into bland consumerism.” Archives of Sexual Behaviour “The book is well written and accessible to the non-expert reader. It contains an extensive bibliography and ... Read more

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