{"product_id":"orgasm-and-the-west-9780745638768","title":"Orgasm and the West","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan the orgasm be explained in historical terms? An almost incommunicable individual emotion yet also a cultural reality, the orgasm is part of, but also escapes, collective experience. The history of the orgasm is that of the hidden body, of forbidden desires, of flesh constrained by taboos and morality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A bold book by a great historian.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"A book that is readable AND sexy, the history of \u003ci\u003eOrgasm and the West\u003c\/i\u003e is the sort of cultural history that enables one to connect our bodies to our past – and our future. A brilliant and exciting addition to the newest thinking about the history of the body!\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSander Gilman, author of \u003ci\u003eSexuality: An Illustrated History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sexual repression has never had such a good press ... Muchembled's encyclopaedic knowledge of European culture from the Renaissance onwards invites intricate dissection.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistory Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 1 Orgasm and the West.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Carnal Knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe birth of the individual.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Renaissance or capitalism?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe individual and transgression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe envelopes of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond the Subject.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs everything sex?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFoucault’s paradigms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe three stages of sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe family and the flesh.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrustrated young men.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSodomites: a ‘third sex’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA new sexual system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe conquest of female pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe erotic revolution of the sixties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Cherchez la femme!’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fountain of pleasures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2 Imprints. Pleasure in Pain (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Masculine, feminine: the person and their body.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepresenting and talking about oneself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe individual enmeshed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fragility of the Self.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe role of women.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeak women.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFemale roles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen rebels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fluidity of bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Carnal Pleasures, Mortal Sins.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForbidden passions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe joys of sex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeasant eroticism in Somerset.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBawdy culture in France.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eL’École des filles, a libertine gem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePleasure and sin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomosexuality in transition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe burning of a pornographer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePleasure and the disruption of the established order.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 3 Cycles. Vice and Virtue (1700-1960).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 The Eroticism of the Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe pornographic flood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA literature of transgression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe market in desire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese books that dimmed the lights of the Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeasuring sex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePleasure - in moderation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrgasm and marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe masculine double standard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo pleasure outside the vagina.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe crusade against onanism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe art of the ‘I’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhores, drunks and vicious apprentices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemonized biographies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe pleasures of the imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Beneath the Victorian Veil (1800-1960).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eControlling sex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial roles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe new medical religion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNudity and body hair.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexuality, a shameful, even fatal, sickness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe age of anxiety.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSemen wasted, death assured: the great fear of masturbation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVenal pleasures and fallen women.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough the looking glass.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalter the Victorian.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ‘hell’ of sex: pornography prospers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking the ‘transgressions’ ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProletarian pleasures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ebbs and flows of the desire for pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 4 Revolutions? The heritage of the Sixties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 The era of pleasure (from 1960 to our own day).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA sexual bombshell: the Kinsey Report.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe origins of the ‘culture wars’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomosexuality and masturbation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA hidden erotic culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe survival of a sexual double standard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe discovery of the female orgasm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFemale pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe contraceptive revolutions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGood vibrations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards a new sexual contract?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanges to the code of love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe right to sexual pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGay marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eErotic equality and simultaneous orgasm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe sexual revolution today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion The narcissistic society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe values of the hedonists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNarcissism and culture\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404374909271,"sku":"9780745638768","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745638768.jpg?v=1730486266","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/orgasm-and-the-west-9780745638768","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}