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Philippe Ariès and André Béjin, eds.; trans. Anthony Forster.
Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987 reprint (previously issued 1986; hardback was 1985, original French edn. was 1982).
Series: Family, Sexuality & Social Relations in Past Times.
ISBN 0631149899.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 150×228×18mm.
Page count: xi,220pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the covers on this copy are yellowed with age, some wear on the edges and corners; the spine is slightly wrinkled but not otherwise creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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Weight without packaging: 366g.

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No particular medieval emphasis. Contents:
Fox, Conditions of sexual evolution;
Foucault, Battle for chastity;
Veyne, Homosexuality in ancient Rome;
Ariès, St. Paul & the flesh;
Pollack, Male homosexuality — or happiness in the ghetto;
Ariès, History of homosexuality;
Rossiaud, Prostitution, sex & society in French towns in the 15th century;
Olivieri, Eroticism & social groups in 16th-c Venice, the courtesan;
Goreau, 2 English women in the 17th century;
Flandrin, Sex in married life in the early middle ages;
Ariès, Love in married life;
Ariès, The indissoluble marriage;
Béjin, The extra-marital union today;
Lafont, Changing sexual behaviour in French youth gangs;
Béjin, Decline of the psycho-analyst & rise of the sexologist;
Béjin, Influence of the sexologists & sexual democracy.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 8
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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