02236nam 2200457 450 991046716670332120191125125536.01-5017-4547-610.7591/9781501745478(CKB)4100000009147474(MiAaPQ)EBC5965109(DE-B1597)534292(OCoLC)1125109821(DE-B1597)9781501745478(Au-PeEL)EBL5965109(EXLCZ)99410000000914747420191125d1988 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierConsuming desire sexual science and the emergence of a culture of abundance, 1871-1914 /Lawrence BirkenIthaca, New York ;London :Cornell University Press,[1988]©19881 online resource (ix, 167 pages)0-8014-2058-X 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 --IndexConsuming 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.Sex customsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Sex customsHistory306.70973Birken Lawrence1951-2003,1031263MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910467166703321Consuming desire2448546UNINA