Sociology Of Sex And SexualityA Sociology of Sex and Sexuality offers an historical sociological analysis of ideas about expressions of sexual desire, combining both primary and secondary historical and theoretical material with original research and popular imagery in the contemporary context. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 The specialness of sex | 5 |
Chapter 2 Sex and modernity | 17 |
Chapter 3 Enlightenment pleasures and bourgeois anxieties | 32 |
Chapter 4 The science of sex | 50 |
Chapter 5 Planning sex | 72 |
Chapter 6 Pleasurable sex | 88 |
Chapter 7 Liberalizing heterosexuality? | 105 |
Chapter 8 Subverting heterosexuality | 125 |
Final thoughts and questions | 145 |
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Back cover | 165 |
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