Sexuality and modern Western culture

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العنوان: Sexuality and modern Western culture
المؤلفون: Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960-
بيانات النشر: New York : Twayne Publishers, c1996.
سنة النشر: 1996
وصف مادي: xix, 136 p. ; 23 cm.
سلاسل: Twayne's studies in intellectual and cultural history
Twayne's studies in intellectual and cultural history
مصطلحات موضوعية: Sex customs -- History., Sex customs -- United States -- History., Sex in popular culture -- History., Sex and history., Sexology -- History., Sexual Behavior -- history., History.
الوصف: In this study, Carolyn J. Dean focuses on the transformation of sexuality and its changing role in gender relations, politics, and culture. In Dean's view, a history of sexuality, by necessity, is a history of the changing relationship between sex and gender - that is, between our anatomy and our cultural expectations of what it means to be a man or woman. Dean examines how turn-of-the-century concerns about deviant sexual behavior and the changing role of women in society led to a radical restructuring of sex-gender connections in the early part of the 20th century. Her review of debates on pornography, obscenity, homosexuality, and the role of women demonstrates how many of the pressing issues from the beginning of this century continue to haunt us at its end.
Sexuality and Modern Western Culture makes a significant contribution to the nascent field of sexuality studies, bringing an innovative feminist approach to the current discussion of the body and the modern self. Dean's study is clear, concise, and comprehensive. It combines empirical research, theoretical sophistication, and historiographical contextualization, showing how cultural and intellectual history can be combined to illuminate an important and complex topic of pressing moral, political, and aesthetic concern.
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: 1. Sexuality, Gender, and Selfhood -- 2. The Development of Sexology -- 3. Sexuality, Gender, and Selflessness -- 4. The Sexual Revolution -- 5. Sexuality, Obscenity Law, and Violence in the United States, 1950-1994.
Original Identifier: ocm34077152
نوع الوثيقة: Book
اللغة: English
ردمك: 978-0-8057-8615-6
0-8057-8615-5
حقوق: This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress.
ملاحظات: Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-132) and index.
رقم الأكسشن: edshlc.006992191.1
قاعدة البيانات: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset
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ردمك:9780805786156
0805786155