Nationalism and Sexuality: Middle-Class Morality and Sexual Norms in Modern Europe

by George L. Mosse

Book Overview

Analyzing the history of sexuality in the context of the relationship between nationalism and respectability can help us to realize where we stand, how we got there, and how we might change. In this work, George Mosse strives to show how concepts of sexuality haunted bourgeois society and nationalism, to be acknowledged yet curbed, deflected from the physical onto an ideal stereotype of male and female beauty.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299118940
• ISBN13: 9780299118945
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"