Mclaren

Broschiertes Buch

Twentieth-Century Sexuality

Beschreibung

This book provides a fascinating history of sexuality in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Angus McLaren draws upon legal, medical and literary sources to demonstrate how modern sexuality has been shaped by race, class, gender and generational preoccupations. He explores why the century was punctuated by sexual panics over a range of issues from abortion, contraception and marital disharmony to frigidity, homosexuality and AIDS. By scrutinizing the activities of sexologists, psychoanalysts, eugenicists, feminists and fascists - as well as the ordinary men and women they sought to influence - this book tracks the shifting meanings the western world has given to sexuality.

Autor

Angus McLaren is Professor of History at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada and Associate Editor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality. He has taught at the University of Calgary and has been a Visiting Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford and Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is the author of A History of Contraception and has also researched widely on the history of abortion, eugenics and twentieth century sexuality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780631208136
• ISBN-10: 0631208135
• Artikelnr.: 21045081

Rezensionen

"This highly informative text is comprehensive, clearly written,and relies on the most up-to-date scholarship in its field.McLaren's interpretive outlook is unfailingly tolerant andinvariably insightful." Robert A. Nye, Oregon StateUniversity

"McLaren's book is to be highly recommended as a generaltextbook which illuminates the evolving debates and practicesconcerned with twentieth-century sexuality. Both undergraduates andprofessional historians will find it useful as is lays out theevidence and provides copious footnotes to help with furtherexploration of the topic." History

"A valuable, fluently-written and very well-documented historyof sexuality ... a most impressive work." Contemporary BritishHistory

"...

the book is stuffed full of goodies ... written inMcLaren's usual readable style." American HistoricalReview

"In Twentieth Century Sexuality: A History, Angus McLarensucceeds in accomplishing exactly what his title promises; toprovide a history of twentieth century sexuality. And in theprocess of reaching this ambitious goal, he gives us vaststimulation and food for thought.

"McLaren has therefore written a very important book and onethat crackles with insights while being as comprehensive as can beimagined. As such, the work is quite unique." Journal of SocialHistory

"Angus McLaren's ability to provide an overview of as complex atopic as sexuality in the mercurial twentieth-century is trulyoutstanding. In this book, he summarizes - with wit as well ashistorical accuracy - many of the key issues that have shapedsexual identity throughout the last century." MedicalHistory

"Writing in clear, well-organized prose, he is mindful of theinfluences of popular culture and media on sexual attitudes. Thebook succeeds best as a broad-ranging survey of Western Europeanand Anglo-American attitudes." Publishers Weekly

"Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History ...seeks toexplore its topic in its quintessential complexity." Journal ofFamily Studies