An edition of Sexual knowledge, sexual science (1994)

Sexual knowledge, sexual science

the history of attitudes to sexuality

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An edition of Sexual knowledge, sexual science (1994)

Sexual knowledge, sexual science

the history of attitudes to sexuality

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 fulfillment will all advance hand-in-hand. With the modern backlash against permissiveness, and against the background of AIDS, such views are being challenged. Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science offers historical perspectives upon such questions.

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English
Pages
408

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Sexual knowledge, sexual science: the history of attitudes to sexuality
1994, Cambridge University Press
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Sexual knowledge, sexual science: history of attitudes to sexuality
1994, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This book derives in part from a conference held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in the summer of 1991 and organized by Michael Neve and Christine Stevenson"--Acknowledgements.

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Cambridge [England], New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
306.7/09
Library of Congress
HQ60 .S5 1994, HQ60.S5 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 408 p. :
Number of pages
408

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1419023M
Internet Archive
sexualknowledges0000unse
ISBN 10
0521444349, 0521448913
LCCN
93028940
OCLC/WorldCat
28547146
Library Thing
2254226
Goodreads
3825707
608146

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