Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)

Stories that transcend the human-created dichotomy between the physical and the spiritual, the sensual and the divine... in tales that will make you think about the very nature of reality and sex... to explosions of passionate enlightenment --Donald Kraig, author of Modern Sex Magick

These tales of all-encompassing eroticism serve for guidance to the much-needed birth of a new world -Carl Calleman, author of The Purposeful Universe

Through the tantric union of ... potencies of creation... this divine communion...

A pioneering study which has become an established classic in its field, Sex, Politics and Society provides a lucid and comprehensive analysis of the transformations of British sexual life from 1800 to the present. These changes are firmly located in the wider context of British social, political and cultural life, from industrialization, urbanisation and the impact of Empire and colonisation, through the experience of economic disruption, World Wars, the establishment of the welfare state, changing patterns of gender and the emergence of new sexual identities, and the rise of both...

A pioneering study which has become an established classic in its field, Sex, Politics and Society provides a lucid and comprehensive analysis of the transformations of British sexual life from 1800 to the present. These changes are firmly located in the wider context of British social, political and cultural life, from industrialization, urbanisation and the impact of Empire and colonisation, through the experience of economic disruption, World Wars, the establishment of the welfare state, changing patterns of gender and the emergence of new sexual identities, and the rise of both...

This volume serves as an introduction to a rich and as yet under-explored period in the history of women s ideas. The volume provides a partial insight into the richness and complexity of women s political ideas in the centuries prior to the French Revolution. The essays in this collection examine women s political writings with particular reference to the themes of virtue (especially the virtue of phronesis or prudence), liberty, and toleration.

Since the 1990s, the screening of sex on American, British and Asian television screens has become increasingly prolific. Considering not only the specificities of selected sexualised images in relation to popular series, this study also concerns itself with the ramifications of TV sex as well as discussing the various techniques that are used by TV producers/programme makers to establish the cultural worth of their texts in series such as Shameless, The Tudors and True Blood.

The contributions draw attention to shifting representations of sex on television away from...

During the last half of the nineteenth century, a number of social and economic factors converged that resulted in the rural village of Deerfield, Massachusetts becoming almost entirely female. This drastic shift in population presents a unique lens through which to study gender roles and social relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The lessons gleaned from this case study will provide new insight to the study of gender relations throughout other historical periods as well.

Through an intensive examination of both historical and archaeological evidence, the...

Focusing on literary texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Joel Chandler Harris, Richard Wright, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee, together...