Fara Dabhoiwala

Broschiertes Buch

Origins of Sex

A History of the First Sexual Revolution

Beschreibung

For most of western history, all sex outside marriage was illegal. Between 1600 and 1800, this entire world-view was shattered by revolutionary new ideas. This book shows that the creation of this modern culture of sex was a central part of the Enlightenment, that helped create a new model of western civilization.

Autor

Fara Dabhoiwala was born in England, grew up in Amsterdam, and was educated at York and Oxford. His last book, The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution was an Economist and Sunday Times book of the year and has been translated into several languages. After many years teaching at Oxford, he is now a Senior Research Scholar in history at Princeton University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin / Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 127mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780241955963
• ISBN-10: 0241955963
• Artikelnr.: 36641876

Rezensionen

Path-breaking ... touching ... This is a marvellously rich and thought-provoking book, written with clarity and humanity, and drawing on a huge range of materials, from sermons to pornography to social statistics Noel Malcolm Sunday Telegraph