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The autonomy of pleasure : libertines, license, and sexual revolution
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Title
The autonomy of pleasure : libertines, license, and sexual revolution / James A. Steintrager.
ISBN
9780231151580
0231151586
9780231540872
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
xi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 20, 2016
Series
Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-376) and index.
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.
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