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| 文件类型: | 书 |
|---|---|
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Faramerz Dabhoiwala |
| ISBN: | 9780199892419 0199892415 |
| OCLC号码: | 768168269 |
| 描述: | xi, 483 p. : ill. (some col.), plates ; 25 cm. |
| 内容: | Acknowledgements -- Prologue: the culture of discipline -- Power and punishment -- The decline and fall of public punishment -- The rise of sexual freedom -- The cult of seduction -- The new world of men and women -- The origins of white slavery -- The media and the message -- Epilogue: modern cultures of sex: from the Victorians to the twenty-first century. |
| 责任: | Faramerz Dabhoiwala. |
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<br>"In this lively and massively researched book, historian Dabhoiwala makes a convincing case that modern attitudes to sex in Britain derive from the changes in thought and sensibility that constituted the European Enlightenment...What distinguishes this book is its grand sweep...Recommended." --CHOICE<p><br>"Dabhoiwala works meticulously through the historical records of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries to show how English culture evolved intellectually, politically, and socially to arrive at modern ideas of sexual liberty, gender equality, and the privatization of sex-ideas that continued to evolve and transform culture during the 20th century this book is highly recommended to readers interested in English history and the history of sexuality." -- Library Journal<br><p><br>"In this brilliantly argued, lucid and enthralling book, Faramerz Dabhoiwala describes the first sexual revolution -- a sea change in attitudes towards sexual morality, the public and the private. The Origins of Sex shows how far men enjoyed, and women endured, the new sexual world. It is a majestic and provocative history of ideas and attitudes." --Amanda Vickery, author of The Gentleman's Daughter<p><br>"A splendidly informative and entertaining book ... persuasively argue[d] ... rich in anecdotes, funny, touching." -- The Economist<p><br>"Wonderful ... [written] with great care and and unselfconscious aplomb ... an informative, wide-ranging book that is also compellingly readable." -John Barrell, The Guardian<p><br>"Ambitious ... brave ... a fascinating subject and also an important one ... it reveals as transient and relative so many of the values that seem non-negotiable today." -- Lucy Worsley, The Financial Times<p><br>"The Origins of Sex overturns the conventional wisdom that the sexual revolution began in the Sixties ... baby boomers ... will be shocked and, I suspect, a little upset." -Cosmo Landesman, The Sunday Times<p><br>"Splendid ... audacious ... impressive ... [a] masterly 再读一些...
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