LEADER 02202nam 2200445 450 001 9910819738903321 005 20191125125536.0 010 $a1-5017-4547-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501745478 035 $a(CKB)4100000009147474 035 $a(DE-B1597)534292 035 $a(OCoLC)1125109821 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501745478 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5965109 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5965109 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009147474 100 $a20191125d1988 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aConsuming desire $esexual science and the emergence of a culture of abundance, 1871-1914 /$fLawrence Birken 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d[1988] 210 4$dİ1988 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 167 pages) 311 $a0-8014-2058-X 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Dissolution of Political Economy --$t2. The Emergence of Sexology --$t3. Evolution and Devolution --$t4. Democratization and Degeneration --$t5. Sexuality and History --$t6. Society and Sexology --$t7. The Disintegration of Holism --$tEpilogue: "The Sexual Counterrevolution" in Historical Perspective --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aConsuming 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. 606 $aSex customs$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aSex customs$xHistory 676 $a306.70973 700 $aBirken$b Lawrence$f1951-2003,$01667021 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819738903321 996 $aConsuming desire$94026605 997 $aUNINA