03891oam 2200793 450 991078712170332120230126212516.09781921870668(electronic bk.)1921870664(electronic bk.)(CKB)3710000000313306(EBL)1887614(SSID)ssj0001381930(PQKBManifestationID)11896388(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001381930(PQKBWorkID)11454654(PQKB)10832766(MiAaPQ)EBC1887614(EXLCZ)99371000000031330620141215d2015 u|| |engur|n#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe sex lives of Australians a history /Frank Bongiorno2nd editionMelbourne :Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd,[2015]©20151 online resource (353 pages)Description based upon print version of record.Print version: 9781863955676 186395-5674 Includes bibliographical references and index.Dedication -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Founding Sexualities -- Chapter 2: The Victorian Scene -- Chapter 3: A Pleasant Amusement? -- Chapter 4: The Foe within Ourselves -- Chapter 5: Tabbies, Amateurs and the Cream of Australian Manhood -- Chapter 6: Fast Times -- Chapter 7: War and Peace -- Chapter 8: Sexual Revolution -- Chapter 9: Toleration, Liberation, Backlash; Picture - section; Acknoledgements; Abbreviations; Endnotes.Winner of the 2013 ACT Book of the Year Award.Cross-dressing colonists, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes - here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-dayIn this highly readable social history, Frank Bongiorno uses striking examples to chart the changing sex lives of Australians. He shows how an overwhelmingly male penal colony gave rise to a rough and ready culture: the scarcity of women made for strange bedfellows, and the female minority was both powerful and vulnerable.Then came the Victorian era, in which fears of sodomy helped bring an end to the transportation of convicts. Tracing the story all the way to the present, Bongiorno shows how the quest for respectability always has another side to it, and how the contraceptive pill changed so much. Along the way he deals with some intriguing questions - were the Kelly gang gay? Why did the law ignore lesbianism for so long? - and introduces some remarkable characters, both reformers and radicals. This is the thought-provoking story of sex in Australia.Sex customsHistoryAustraliaSocial changeHistoryAustraliaAustraliansSocial life and customsSocial SciencesBehaviorSociologySocioeconomic FactorsBehavior and Behavior MechanismsPopulation CharacteristicsHealth CareSocial ChangePoliticsSexual BehaviorSex customsHistorySocial changeHistoryAustraliansSocial life and customsSocial SciencesBehaviorSociologySocioeconomic FactorsBehavior and Behavior MechanismsPopulation CharacteristicsHealth CareSocial ChangePoliticsSexual Behavior306.70994Bongiorno Frank1539769AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910787121703321The sex lives of Australians3790844UNINA