{"product_id":"sexuality-state-and-civil-society-in-germany-17001815-9780801482533","title":"Sexuality State and Civil Society in Germany","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsabel V. Hull analyzes the shift in the \"sexual system\" which occurred in German-speaking Central Europe when the absolutist state relinquished its monopoly on public life and presided over the formation of an independent civil society. Hull defines a society's sexual system as the patterned way in which sexual behavior is shaped and given meaning through institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unusually creative and important book, its argument is built on research remarkable in breadth and depth and its implications radiate from the focus on sexuality to a great variety of related themes.... \u003ci\u003eSexuality, State, and Civil Society \u003c\/i\u003einvites skepticism about itself precisely because its author brings such a powerful historical imagination to her subject. It is a book to be welcomed, appreciated, and pondered.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Modern History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHull analyzes the evolving bureaucratic understanding of heterosexuality during the transition from absolutist moral regulation of sexual practices for the public good to the formation of a bourgeois civil society of privacy and property.... She offers a remarkable look at the sexual dimension of the liberal social contract and at those whose sexual liberty was assured thereby.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith great intellectual energy and resourcefulness, Hull has placed a new set of issues on our scholarly agenda. After reading \u003ci\u003eSexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700–1815\u003c\/i\u003e, no one will view this period in quite the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e * Times Literary Supplement *","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405164355927,"sku":"9780801482533","price":29.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801482533.jpg?v=1730488949","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sexuality-state-and-civil-society-in-germany-17001815-9780801482533","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}