Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America - Softcover

D'Emilio, John; Freedman, Estelle B.; An, Estelle B. Freedman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060915501 ISBN 13: 9780060915506

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1989

Synopsis

Traces changing American attitudes towards human sexuality, discusses social issues involving race, gender, class, and sexual preference, and looks at crusaders for sexual change

About this title

From the Publisher:

A fascinating, hard look at the history of American attitudes toward sex. "A grown-up book about a subject about which we can be astonishingly childish."--Washington Post Book World

From Library Journal:

An irony of historical writing is that sexualityone of the most important factors in everyone's livesis perhaps the least discussed. Gender relations, the purpose of sexual intercourse, and the meaning of marriage shape the daily lives of most adults, yet historians often ignore such matters. Now this oversight is rectified by an excellent survey of sexuality in America from colonial days to the 1980s. The commercialization of sex, its use as a means of social control, and the search for its place in our lives are presented here clearly and readably. Highly recommended for most academic and public libraries. Pat Ensor, Indiana State Univ. Lib., Terre Haute
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0060915501
• ISBN 13: 9780060915506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480