1st Edition

Histories of Sexuality Antiquity to Sexual Revolution

By Stephen Garton Copyright 2004
288 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

A history of sexuality runs the risk of confirming popular fears that academics are capable of ruining even the most simple of pleasures. This book, however, is written in the hope that histories of sexuality (although not necessarily this one) can enlighten and, occasionally, even delight. At their best such histories offer a means of investigating the clash of instinct and culture — how... Read more
Preface 1. Writing Sexual History 2. Rule of the Phallus 3. Sexual Austerity 4. Christian Friendships 5. Making Heterosexuality 6. Victorianism 7. Dominance and Desire 8. Feminism and Friendship 9. Imagining Perversion 10. Normalising Sexuality 11. Sexual Revolution Epilogue

Biography

Stephen Garton is Challis Professor of History at The University of Sydney and is a Fellow of the Australian academies of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Currently the Dean of the Faculty of Arts he is the author of Medicine and Madness (1988), Out of Luck (1990) and The Cost of War (1996).