The Transformation of Intimacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transformation of Intimacy write by Anthony Giddens. This book was released on 2013-04-23. The Transformation of Intimacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does 'sexuality' come into being and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life on a more general plane? In answering these questions, Anthony Giddens disputes many of the dominant interpretations of the role of sexuality in modern culture. The emergence of what the author calls plastic sexuality - sexuality freed from its intrinsic relation to reproduction - is analysed in terms of the long-term development of the modern social order and social influences of the last few decades. Giddens argues that the transformation of intimacy, in which women have played the major part, holds out the possibility of a radical democratization of the personal sphere. This book will appeal to a large general audience as well as being essential reading for students and professionals.
The Transformation of Sexuality
The Transformation of Sexuality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transformation of Sexuality write by Thomas Johansson. This book was released on 2016-02-17. The Transformation of Sexuality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do contemporary young people construct their sexual identities? Are young people sexually liberated, or is human sexuality increasingly controlled and manipulated by commercial forces? Thomas Johansson explores the construction of sexual identities by young people as part of a wider process of identity construction, combining the work of key authors such as Elias and Foucault with original and revealing empirical material drawn from an extensive survey of the views of 1300 sixteen to nineteen year olds, combined with a number of qualitative in-depth interviews with different sexual subcultures. Topics covered include fidelity and infidelity, love, homosexuality, pornography and beauty ideals. Designed to look beyond media images and popular prejudices the book illustrates how young people of both genders, of different nationalities and of different group allegiances view and relate to their own sexuality.
From Shame to Sin
From Shame to Sin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Shame to Sin write by Kyle Harper. This book was released on 2013-06-01. From Shame to Sin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution.
Sexuality, Shamanism, and Transformation
Sexuality, Shamanism, and Transformation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sexuality, Shamanism, and Transformation write by Michael Ripinsky-Naxon. This book was released on 1997. Sexuality, Shamanism, and Transformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
After Eunuchs
After Eunuchs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After Eunuchs write by Howard Chiang. This book was released on 2018-08-07. After Eunuchs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For much of Chinese history, the eunuch stood out as an exceptional figure at the margins of gender categories. Amid the disintegration of the Qing Empire, men and women in China began to understand their differences in the language of modern science. In After Eunuchs, Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing the centrality of new epistemic structures to the formation of Chinese modernity. From anticastration discourses in the late Qing era to sex-reassignment surgeries in Taiwan in the 1950s and queer movements in the 1980s and 1990s, After Eunuchs explores the ways the introduction of Western biomedical sciences transformed normative meanings of gender, sexuality, and the body in China. Chiang investigates how competing definitions of sex circulated in science, medicine, vernacular culture, and the periodical press, bringing to light a rich and vibrant discourse of sex change in the first half of the twentieth century. He focuses on the stories of gender and sexual minorities as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, philosophers, educators, reformers, journalists, and tabloid writers, as they debated the questions of political sovereignty, national belonging, cultural authenticity, scientific modernity, human difference, and the power and authority of truths about sex. Theoretically sophisticated and far-reaching, After Eunuchs is an innovative contribution to the history and philosophy of science and queer and Sinophone studies.
