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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790913603321

Titolo

Sexual Revolutions [[electronic resource] /] / edited by G. Hekma, A. Giami

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

1-349-45804-X

1-137-32146-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9479

Disciplina

176/.4

Soggetti

Civilization—History

Social history

History, Modern

Europe—History

Russia—History

Europe, Eastern—History

America—History

Cultural History

Social History

Modern History

European History

Russian, Soviet, and East European History

History of the Americas

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1 Sexual Revolutions: An Introduction; 2 Sexual Liberalism in Sweden; 3 The Long Sexual Revolution: The Police and the New Gay Man; 4 A Radical Break with a Puritanical Past: The Dutch Case; 5 Catholics and Sexual Change in Flanders; 6 The Long History of the ''Sexual Revolution'' in West Germany; 7 Sexual Revolution(s) in Britain; 8 The Revival of Sexuality Studies in France in the Late 1950s; 9 Therapies of Sexual Liberation: Society, Sex and Self



10 ''Something Much Bigger than Lust or the Struggle for Homosexuality'': The Ambivalent Sexual Emancipation of Daniel Guérin11 The Gay Liberation Movement in France; 12 Pornography, Perversity and the Sexual Revolution; 13 ''Sex Freedom Girls Speak Out''. Women in Sexual Revolution; 14 The Sexual Revolution in the USSR: Dynamics Beneath the Ice; 15 Abortion, Christianity, Disability: Western Europe, 1960s-1970s; 16 Pedophilia, Homosexuality and Gay and Lesbian Activism; Select Bibliography on Sexual Revolutions; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Sexual Revolutions explores the sexual revolution of the late twentieth century in several European countries and the USA by engaging with themes from sexual freedom and abortion to pornography and sexual variation. This work discusses the involvement of youth, feminism, left, liberalism, arts, science and religion in the process of sexual change.