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Sexuality and its discontents : meanings, myths, and modern sexualities

'What is so helpful about Jeffrey Weeks' book is that it provides a thinking cap beneath which to understand the complete range of discontented sexual prejudice and polemic of our time.' New Society.

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  • "'What is so helpful about Jeffrey Weeks' book is that it provides a thinking cap beneath which to understand the complete range of discontented sexual prejudice and polemic of our time.' New Society."@en
  • "Few topics evoke so much anxiety and pleasure, pain and hope, discussion and silence as sexuality. Throughout the Christian era it has been a major moral preoccupation. Since the eighteenth century it has also been the focus of 'scientific' exploration and political activity. But, despite this obsessive concern, we are still as baffled as our predecessors about the 'true' meaning of sex. In this book Jeffrey Weeks unravels the dense web of historical, theoretical and political forces that have culminated in the contemporary crisis of sexual meanings and values. The book begins with a powerful evocation of our present discontents and their potent signs: the rise of the New Right, the retreat of progressive forces and a wave of moral panics around sex. It argues that this crisis is rooted in a tradition which has ascribed an inflated importance to sexuality, whilst claiming a privileged access to truth. The author then examines radical debates of recent years, and asks whether they contain the potentiality for taking us beyond the existing boundaries of sexuality. From this analysis emerges a controversial 'radical pluralist' approach to sexuality built on an acceptance of diversity and choice. - from Google Books."
  • ""What is so helpful about Jeffrey Weeks's book is that it provides a thinking cap beneath which to understand the complete range of discontented sexual prejudice and polemic of our time."--New Society."@en

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  • "Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme)"
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  • "Livre électronique (Descripteur de forme)"

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  • "Sexuality and its discontents : meanings, myths, and modern sexualities"@en
  • "El malestar de la sexualidad : significados, mitos y sexualidades modernas"@es
  • "Sexuality and its discontents : meanings, myths & modern sexualities"
  • "Sexuality and its discontents : meanings, myths & modern sexualities"@en
  • "Sexuality and Its Discontents Meanings, Myths, and Modern Sexualities"@en
  • "Xing, bu zhi shi xing ai"
  • "Sexuality and its discontents meanings, myths, [and] modern sexualities"
  • "Sexuality and its discontents meanings, myths, & modern sexualities"
  • "Sexuality and its discontents meanings, myths, & modern sexualities"@en
  • "Sexuality and its discontents meanings, myths, and modern sexualities"@en
  • "Sexuality and its dicontents : meanings, myths & modern sexualities"
  • "Sexuality and its discontents : meanings, myths, & modern sexualities"
  • "Sexuality and its discontents : meanings, myths, & modern sexualities"@en
  • "Sexuality and its discontents : meaning, myths & modern sexualities"
  • "Sexuality and its discontents"
  • "Sexuality and its Discontents Meanings, Myths & Modern Sexualities"@en
  • "Sexuality and its discontents : meanings, myths and modern sexualities"
  • "El Malestar de la sexualidad : significados, mitos y sexualidades modernas"
  • "性, 不只是性爱"
  • "Sexuality and its discontents meanings, myths [and] modern sexualities"
  • "性, 不只是性愛"
  • "Sexuality and its discontents meanings, myths and modern sexualities"@en
  • "Sexuality and its discontents meanings, myths and modern sexualities"
  • "El malestar de la sexualidad : significados, mitos y sexualidades modernas"

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