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Sex And Poeasure In Western Culture by GAIL HAWKES is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sex And Poeasure In Western Culture about?
Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture provides the first comprehensive overview of desire and pleasure in western sexual culture. It argues that both have always been seen as socially disruptive and morally dangerous and offers an entertaining account of the methods by which these attributes of sex were managed across the centuries from Classical Antiquity to the present day. The book develops the hypothesis that, while expressed in very different social contexts, sexual pleasure has evoked very s
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- GAIL HAWKES
- Publisher
- Cambridge, England ; Malden, MA: Polity Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780745616711
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Gender Studies, Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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