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Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science
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Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science Hardcover - 1994

by Roy Porter; Mikulas Teich


From the publisher

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 fulfilment will all advance hand-in-hand. With the modern backlash against permissiveness, and against the background of AIDS, such views are being challenged. This new book offers an historical perspective upon such questions.

Details

  • Title Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science
  • Author Roy Porter; Mikulas Teich
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 422
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1994
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521444347 / 0521444349
  • Weight 1.64 lbs (0.74 kg)
  • Dimensions 5.98 x 8.98 x 1.18 in (15.19 x 22.81 x 3.00 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sexology - History - Congresses, Sex customs - History - Congresses
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93028940
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.709