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The History of Sexuality: The use of Pleasure v. 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
Short Description for The History of Sexuality: The use of Pleasure v. 2Offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex and exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Published: 24 September 1992
- Format: Paperback 304 pages
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- Categories: History Of Ideas | Gender Studies, Gender Groups | Sexual Behaviour | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Social & Cultural History | Popular Psychology
- ISBN 13: 9780140137347 ISBN 10: 0140137343
- Sales rank: 35,628
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Full description for The History of Sexuality: The use of Pleasure v. 2
This book offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Here Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex as well as on exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women. The book abounds in insights into the differences - and the continuities - between the Ancient, Christian and Modern worlds. But Foucault does far more than merely recreate a vanished era when sex was not a major moral issue (only Plato, like Saint Paul, saw puritanical restraint as the way of wisdom), but makes us rethink all our own assumptions about sex.
