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Why does sexuality fascinate us—and why do we still fear it?
"Sexuality" may be an 18th-century coinage, but as this new study by award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, it has fascinated and frightened us for millennia. From proscription to prescription, and from humor to anxiety, this book explores the vast sex-scape of experience and response over time. Looking at authorized and unauthorized works on sexual knowledge, from scientific, religious, medical, philosophical, and political ideas, to letters, diaries, court cases, and medical histories, it reveals popular and orthodox assumptions as well as individual experiences, and reminds us of just how complex we really are. This accessible book will appeal both to students and general readers, giving a compelling introduction to sexuality—and to what matters most about it.
"Sexuality" may be an 18th-century coinage, but as this new study by award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, it has fascinated and frightened us for millennia. From proscription to prescription, and from humor to anxiety, this book explores the vast sex-scape of experience and response over time. Looking at authorized and unauthorized works on sexual knowledge, from scientific, religious, medical, philosophical, and political ideas, to letters, diaries, court cases, and medical histories, it reveals popular and orthodox assumptions as well as individual experiences, and reminds us of just how complex we really are. This accessible book will appeal both to students and general readers, giving a compelling introduction to sexuality—and to what matters most about it.
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Louise Foxcroft is the author of Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years and Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History of the Modern Menopause, which won the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award 2009. Her writing appears in the Daily Mail, Guardian, Independent, New Scientist, and Times.
