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Winner of the 2013 ACT Book of the Year Award Cross-dressing convicts, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes - here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-day. In this fascinating social history, Frank Bongiorno uses striking examples to chart the changing sex lives of Australians. Tracing the story up to the present, Bongiorno shows how the quest for respectability always has another side to it. Along the way he deals with some intriguing questions - What did it mean to be a ’mate’? How did modern warfare affect soldiers’ attitudes to sex? Why did the law ignore lesbianism for so long? - and introduces some remarkable characters both reformers and radicals. This is a thought-provoking and enlightening journey through the history of sex in Australia. With a foreword by Michael Kirby, AC CMG. **Praise for __The Sex Lives of Australians__:** ’Remarkable and highly readable’ - Michael Kirby ’A great book, a compound of wit and tragedy, as you’d expect from the subject matter, plus wide learning and common sense.’ - Alan Atkinson, author of The __Europeans in Australia__ ’The Sex Lives of Australians is such a treasure trove that it is ha

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Author

Frank Bongiorno; Michael Kirby

Publisher

Black Inc.

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781921870668

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Gender Studies, Psychology, History