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Sexuality : a very short introduction
- Author
- Mottier, Véronique.
- Title
- Sexuality : a very short introduction / Véronique Mottier
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008
- Description
- 151 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Series
- Very short introductions.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Before sexuality
- The invention of sexuality
- Virgins or whores? Feminist critiques of sexuality
- The state in the bedroom
- The future of sex.
- Summary
- Sex is everywhere in the modern world. But why is it so important to who we are? What shpaes our sexuality and how does our sexuality shape us? What impact has feminism, religion, and HIV/AIDS had on our attitudes of sex? This "Very Short Introduction examines these questions and more, exploring how sexual norms have changed throughout history, from self-castrating early Christians to modern-day born-again virgins, from sexual liberationists to lesbian separatists; and tackling the major controversies aroudn sex and sexuality today: ideas of masculinity and femininity, paedophilia, gay politics, sex education, eugenics, and even the future of sex itself -- from publisher.
- Subject headings
- Sex. Women and erotica.
- ISBN
- 9780199298020