The sex lives of Australians : a history / / Frank Bongiorno

• Autore: Bongiorno Frank
• Pubblicazione: Melbourne : , : Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd, , [2015]; ©2015
• Edizione: 2nd edition
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.70994
• Soggetto topico: Sex customs - History - Australia; Social change - History - Australia; Australians - Social life and customs; Social Sciences; Behavior; Sociology; Socioeconomic Factors; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Population Characteristics; Health Care; Social Change; Politics; Sexual Behavior
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The sex lives of Australians
• ISBN: 9781921870668; 1921870664
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459824503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II