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Acknowledgments  Notes  Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732925100375,"sku":"9780226818221","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226818221.jpg?v=1719998974"},{"product_id":"the-origins-of-sex-a-history-of-the-first-sexual-revolution-9780241955963","title":"The Origins of Sex A History of the First Sexual","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor most of western history, all sex outside marriage was illegal, with the church and state punishing any dissent. Between 1600 and 1800, this entire world-view was shattered by revolutionary new ideas - that consenting adults have the freedom to do what they like with their own bodies, and morality cannot be imposed by force.  This groundbreaking book shows that the creation of this modern culture of sex - broadcasted and debated in a rapidly expanding universe of public media - was a central part of the Enlightenment, and helped create a new model of western civilization whose principles of equality, privacy and individual freedom last to this day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePath-breaking ... touching ... This is a marvellously rich and thought-provoking book, written with clarity and humanity, and drawing on a huge range of materials, from sermons to pornography to social statistics -- Noel Malcolm * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eThe Origins of Sex overturns the conventional wisdom that the sexual revolution began in the Sixties ... baby boomers will be shocked and, I suspect, a little upset -- Cosmo Landesman * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA revelation ... 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His fat tome, \u003ci\u003eThe Orgins of Sex\u003c\/i\u003e, took 20 years of historical research and is garnering the kind of \"magisterial\" reviews that cast Dabhoiwala in the role of the younger, cuter, Simon Schama -- Helen Rumbelow * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eFaramerz Dabhoiwala's The Origins of Sex, an enthralling history of changing ideas about sexual freedom and desire from 1600 to 1800, interestingly blends progressivist and circular approaches. He shows us a Western world (mainly England) emerging from medieval sexual morality and enjoying 200 years of relative freedom, but he also shows it sliding back into repression and denial in the 19th century. The future remains a question mark... his book [is] inspiring as well as provocative -- Sarah Bakewell * The Independent *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Sex\u003c\/i\u003e, Faramerz Dabhoiwala does for the history of sexual attitudes what Lawrence Stone did for the history of sex and the family. 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With the meticulous attention worthy of a Vidal Sassoon haircut, Virginia Nicholson has shaped her dazzling kaleidoscope of facts, feelings and observations, into a razor-sharp account of the women who lived through that tumultuous decade -- Juliet Nicolson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssential reading \u003c\/b\u003efor all those who lived through it, and for those who came after -- Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntimate, immersive, often moving\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow Was It For You? \u003c\/i\u003esubtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary decade -- David Kynaston\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Was It For You? \u003c\/i\u003ebrings it all back. As always Virginia Nicholson's book is full of fascinating history and fascinating new material. It makes it feel like the Sixties have never been away, which they never have been, as far as I'm concerned. 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