Origins of sex : a history of the first sexual revolution /
The origins of sex
Faramerz Dabhoiwala.
- New York : Penguin Books, c2012.
- xi, 483 p. : ill. (some col.), plates ; 20 cm.
Rs.499/- TB332/01
Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-446) and index.
Acknowledgements -- Prologue: the culture of discipline -- Power and punishment -- The decline and fall of public punishment -- The rise of sexual freedom -- The cult of seduction -- The new world of men and women -- The origins of white slavery -- The media and the message -- Epilogue: modern cultures of sex: from the Victorians to the twenty-first century.
9780241955963 (pbk.)
Sex--History. Sex customs--History. Sexual ethics--History. Civilization, Western.