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The autonomy of pleasure : libertines, license, and sexual revolution / James A. Steintrager.
LIBRA HQ18.F8 S74 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steintrager, James A., 1965-
- Series:
- Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--France--History--18th century.
- Sex customs.
- Moral conditions.
- History.
- France--Moral conditions.
- France.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: whose sexual revolution?
- A thousand modes of venery : coital positions as actions and communications
- Voluptuary architecture : organizing, policing, and producing pleasure
- Sodomy and reason : making sense of the libertine preference
- "The obscene organ of brute pleasure" : social functions of the clitoris
- The fury of her kindness : what should a libertine know about orgasm?
- Color and caprice: the politics and aesthetics of interracial relations
- Canonizing Sade : eros, democracy, and differentiation
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-376) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231151580
- 0231151586
- OCLC:
- 907494931
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