Desire: A History of European Sexuality Book

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1 Introduction: sexuality and the problem of western civilization 1

2 Sex and the city: Greece and Rome 15

3 Divine desire in Judaism and early Christianity 35

4 Medieval fantasies of desire, sacred and profane 51

5 From twilight moments to moral panics: the regulation of sex from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century 66

6 The age of exploration: sexual contact and culture clash in Spain and colonial Mesoamerica 86

7 Enlightening desire: new attitudes toward sexuality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 102

8 In the Victorian twilight: sex out-of-wedlock, sexual commerce, and same-sex desire, 1750-1870 123

9 Boundaries of the nation, boundaries of the self, 1860-1914 142

10 Managing desire or consuming sex in interwar culture 162

11 Sex and the state in the 1930s: Sweden, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany 181

12 The reconstruction of desire and sexual consumerism in postwar Europe 198

Notes 223

Index 269