Sexuality /

Bristow, Joseph.

Sexuality / Joseph Bristow. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1997. - 248 p. ; 21 cm. - The new critical idiom . - New critical idiom. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sexological Types. Sexual Classifications. Feminist Contentions. Consuming Passions -- Psychoanalytic Drives. Freud's Complexes. Lacan's Orders. Feminist Interventions -- Libidinal Economies. (De)generating Pleasures. Pornographic Materials -- Discursive Desires. Foucault's Bodies. Foucault's Exclusions. Foucault's Followers. Conclusion: Diverse Eroticisms. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the most influential contemporary theories of sexual desire and reveals how nineteenth-century scientists invented 'sexuality'.

0415122686 (alk. paper) 0415084946 (pbk.)

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Sex.
Sex and history.
Sexology.

HQ12 / .B68 1997

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