A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire by Beccalossi, Chiara

A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781472539199)

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A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire by Beccalossi, Chiara

A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire

$40.95
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire by Beccalossi, Chiara

A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire

$40.95
Format: Paperback
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The 19th Century saw intense urbanization, the development of a consumer culture, the formalization of gender roles, the solidification of class structures, and various encounters with the exotic customs of the colonies - all of which contributed to enhance sexual anxiety among the middle classes. In response, new social conventions, sanitary prescriptions, practices of self-control, and policies of sex regulation and education were developed as a means to control disorderly sexual behavior. At the same time, though an ideology based on sexual respectability was largely promoted throughout society, significant individuals and subcultures often challenged both the principle and the practice of such morality.

A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period with essays on heterosexuality, homosexuality, sexual variations, religious and legal issues, health concerns, popular beliefs about sexuality, prostitution and erotica.

Author: Chiara Beccalossi
ISBN-10: 1472539192
ISBN-13: 9781472539199
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 03/13/2014
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.60w x 0.60d
By Chiara Beccalossi
By Chiara Beccalossi
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Chiara Beccalossi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia, and author of Female Sexual Inversion: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology.

Ivan Crozier is a Senior Lecturer in the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh, UK and is currently writing a book on culture-bound syndromes in psychiatry.

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