Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science - Hardcover

Porter, Roy; Teich, Mikulas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521444349 ISBN 13: 9780521444347

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

This volume is about those who have investigated sex from antiquity to the present day.

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Críticas

"Although most of the essays are extremely serious in tone, McLaren, Schiebinger, and Porter spice their analyses with a welcome touch of humor. Altogether, this volume will seduce any reader who is intrigued by the history of sexuality." American Historical Review

Reseña del editor

Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science explores attempts to develop bodies of knowledge about sex from antiquity to the present day. Taking into account cognate sciences like zoology, anatomy, embryology and psychiatry, the volume analyses the shaping over the centuries of disciplines which came by 1900 to be called 'sexology'. Various contributions explore the interfaces between 'high' and 'low' sexual teachings, and the connections and tensions between popular and empirical sexual knowledge on the one hand and overtly scientific formulations. A major concern of the book is to investigate the ideological functions - in terms of group, class and gender - of sexual science, especially when incorporated into systems of legal, medical and political power. Among sexual liberals and radicals it has long been an article of faith that sexual science, sexual liberation and sexual fulfilment will all advance hand-in-hand. With the modern backlash against permissiveness, and against the background of AIDS, such views are being challenged. This new book offers an historical perspective upon such questions.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521444349
• ISBN 13: 9780521444347
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 422
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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