Consuming Desire : : Sexual Science and the Emergence of a Culture of Abundance, 1871-1914 / / Lawrence Birken.
Consuming Desire investigates why a science of sex emerged when it did at the turn of the twentieth century and delivers a provocative account of the role of sexology in our contemporary culture. Examining key texts in the theories of sexuality, psychoanalysis, evolution, and economics, Lawrence Bir...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (168 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Dissolution of Political Economy
- 2. The Emergence of Sexology
- 3. Evolution and Devolution
- 4. Democratization and Degeneration
- 5. Sexuality and History
- 6. Society and Sexology
- 7. The Disintegration of Holism
- Epilogue: "The Sexual Counterrevolution" in Historical Perspective
- Selected Bibliography
- Index