Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History

by Angus McLaren

Book Overview

This book provides a fascinating history of sexuality in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Angus McLaren draws upon legal, medical and literary sources to demonstrate how modern sexuality... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631208135
• ISBN13: 9780631208136
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History

I found McLaren's main message that nearly all attempts at restricting recreational sex were in fact replaced by new modes of restraint. These restraints only appear to be more liberal in nature. McLaren's pace at which he presents his evidence is brisk but not excessive, and the examples that he gives from the primary sources from the past century will make you either laugh in disbelief or cringe at America and Europe's attempt to construct a "healthy" "normal" society.