An Interpretation of Desire: Essays in the Study of Sexuality

by John H. Gagnon

Book Overview

An Interpretation of Desire offers a bracing collection of major essays by John Gagnon, one of the leading and most inspiring figures in sexual research. Spanning his work from the 1970s, when he explored the idea that sexuality is mediated through social processes and categories-thus paving the way for Foucault-and then extending through his turn to issues of desire during the 1990s, these essays constitute an essential entr e to the study...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226278603
• ISBN13: 9780226278605
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"