Sexual Cultures in Europe: Themes in Sexuality - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071905320X ISBN 13: 9780719053207

Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr, 1999

Synopsis

This volume and its companion, Sexual Cultures in Europe: National Histories , favor sexual studies over traditional sexology analogous to the focus of women's studies on culturally-shaped gender. In 11 selections, contributors (all but one European) analyze the social, religious, and demographic context of: "dangerous sexualities" and their control, stigmatized sexualities, and sex and reproduction. Sample topics include: sex education in 18th to 20th century Germany; lesbian doctors in Britain, 1890-1950; the culture of abortion in interwar South Wales; and French Catholics between abstinence and appeasement of lust, 1930-50. Based on a 1996 conference in Amsterdam. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author:

Franz X. Eder is Lecturer at the Institut für Wirtschafts und Sozialgeschichte at the University of Vienna.

Lesley Hall is Lecturer at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London.

Gert Hekma is Lecturer at the Sociologisch Institut in Amsterdam.

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 071905320X
• ISBN 13: 9780719053207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 261
• Editor: Eder Franz X., Hall Lesley A., Hekma Gert