Sexual Cultures in Europe, Volume I National Histories

by Eder, Franz X.; Hall, Lesley; Hekma, Gert

• ISBN13: 9780719053146
• ISBN10: 0719053145
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-21
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This unique volume brings together for the first time studies of the sexual cultures of all the major European countries--including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, Britain and the Netherlands--to focus on their commonalities and differences. European sexual cultures were widely diverse, partly as a result of the great religious divides, different legal systems, and different economic patterns. However, there were some strands of common experience--the reaction to the Enlightenment, the Western influence on the South and East, the hybridization of populations, and sexual fantasy and tourism.

Author Biography

Franz X. Eder is Lecturer at the Institut fnr Wirtschafts und Sozialgeschichte at the University of Vienna.

Lesley Hall is Lecturer at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London.

Gert Hekma is Lecturer at the Sociologisch Institut in Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction	1	(28)
NATIONAL HISTORIES
Sexual cultures in Britain: some persisting themes	29	(24)
Lesley A. Hall
Religion and sexual culture in Ireland	53	(18)
Tony Fahey
The Netherlands: neither prudish nor hedonistic	71	(20)
Harry Oosterhuis
Sex and sexuality in France since 1800	91	(23)
Robert A. Nye
Italy: sexuality, morality and public authority	114	(24)
Bruno P. F. Wanrooij
Sexual cultures in Germany and Austria, 1700-2000	138	(35)
Franz X. Eder
Spain: the political and social context of sex reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries	173	(24)
Richard M. Cleminson
Efigenio Amezua
Sexuality and politics in Russia, 1700-2000	197	(24)
Igor S. Kon
SEXUAL SCIENCE AND SEX REFORM
Medical science and the modernisation of sexuality	221	(21)
Harry Oosterhuis
The World League for Sexual Reform: some possible approaches	242	(19)
Ralf Dose
Index	261