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Birken Lawrence <1951-2003, > |
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Titolo |
Consuming desire : sexual science and the emergence of a culture of abundance, 1871-1914 / / Lawrence Birken |
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Ithaca, New York ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , [1988] |
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©1988 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 167 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Sex customs - United States - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Dissolution of Political Economy -- 2. The Emergence of Sexology -- 3. Evolution and Devolution -- 4. Democratization and Degeneration -- 5. Sexuality and History -- 6. Society and Sexology -- 7. The Disintegration of Holism -- Epilogue: "The Sexual Counterrevolution" in Historical Perspective -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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Consuming Desire investigates why a science of sex emerged when it did at the turn of the twentieth century and delivers a provocative account of the role of sexology in our contemporary culture. Examining key texts in the theories of sexuality, psychoanalysis, evolution, and economics, Lawrence Birken illuminates the intellectual heritage of sexology and the ways in which it is now being pressed into the service of sexual counterrevolutionaries from both the right and the left. |
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