Consuming Desire
Sexual Science and the Emergence of a Culture of Abundance, 1871-1914| By: | Lawrence Birken |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780801420580 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781501745478 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 1988 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Consuming Desire investigates why a science of sex emerged when it did at the turn of the twentieth century and delivers a provocative account of the role of sexology in our contemporary culture. Examining key texts in the theories of sexuality, psychoanalysis, evolution, and economics, Lawrence Birken illuminates the intellectual heritage of sexology and the ways in which it is now being pressed into the service of sexual counterrevolutionaries from both the right and the left.