Bøger af Angus (University of Victoria McLaren
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- The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream
317,95 kr. Between 1877 and 1892, Dr Thomas Neill Cream murdered seven women, all prostitutes or patients seeking abortions, in England and North America. Using press reports and police dossiers, this work presents an account of the killings, providing an insight into Victorian sexual tensions and fears.
- Bog
- 317,95 kr.
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- A Cultural History
307,95 kr. A cultural history of impotence that shows us that the failure of men to rise to the occasion has been a recurrent topic since the dawn of human culture. This work also explores the surprising political and social effects of impotence.
- Bog
- 307,95 kr.
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- Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain
828,95 kr. Drawing on novels, plays, and films of the 1920s and '30s, as well as the work of biologists, psychiatrists, and sexologists, this title brings together the experience and perception of modernity with sexuality, technology, and ecological concerns into a cogent discussion of science's place in reproduction in British and American cultural history.
- Bog
- 828,95 kr.
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- From Antiquity to the Present Day
444,95 kr. This bookm the first history of contraception for almost fifty years, provides a scholarly and highly readable account of procreation and attempts to prevent it from ancient Greece to the late twentieth century. The story, as the author shows, is not one of unalleviated progress, and anything but a simple passage from ignorance to enlightenment.
- Bog
- 444,95 kr.
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- A History
662,95 kr. * Argues against those who see the history of modern sexuality as a tale of liberation* Contends that sexuality is socially constructed and is remade by each generation for its own social and cultural context* Draws on interdisciplinary research. .
- Bog
- 662,95 kr.