Desire :

Clark, Anna.

Desire : a history of European sexuality / - New York ; London : Routledge, 2008. - ix, 282 p. :

Introduction : sex and the problem of Western civilization -- Sex and the city : Greece and Rome -- Divine desire in Judaism and early Christianity -- Medieval fantasies of desire, sacred and profane -- From twilight moments to moral panics : the regulation of sex from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century -- The age of exploration : sexual contact and culture clash in Spain and colonial Mesoamerica -- Enlightening desire : new attitudes toward sexuality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- In the Victorian twilight : sex out-of-wedlock, sexual commerce, and same-sex desire, 1750-1870 -- Boundaries of the nation, boundaries of the self : 1860-1914 -- Managing desire or consuming sex in interwar culture -- Sex and the state in the 1930s : Sweden, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany -- The reconstruction of desire and sexual consumerism in postwar Europe.

9780415775175 (hardcover) 9780415775182 (pbk.) 0415775175 (hardcover) 0415775183 (pbk.)


Sex--History.
Sex customs--History.
Desire--Social aspects.

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