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Gender, pleasure, and violence : the construction of expert knowledge of sexuality in Poland / Agnieszka Koscianska ; translated by Marta Rozmyslowicz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koscianska, Agnieszka, author.
- Series:
- New anthropologies of Europe.
- New anthropologies of Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--Poland--History--20th century.
- Sex.
- Sexual ethics--Poland--History--20th century.
- Sexual ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- By tracing the study of sexual human behavior as it was developed and professionalized in Poland since the 1960s, Gender, Pleasure, and Violence explores how the collapse of socialism brought both restrictions in gender rights and new opportunities.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Sexology and society
- The development of sexology and sexual rights activism in Europe and the United States
- The Polish school of sexology
- Part 2. Pleasure: toward good sex
- Sexuality and scientific knowledge
- "Civilized" sex and gender relations under socialism
- Gender and pleasure in expert discourse today
- Part 3. Violence: expert discourse of rape
- Rape: definitions, legal understanding,and statistics
- The provocative victim and the male limits of self-restraint: stereotypes in expert literature
- In the courtroom
- Feminism: changes in expert discourse and in the courtroom.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253053121
- 0253053129
- 9780253053107
- 0253053102
- OCLC:
- 1229918444
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