{"product_id":"orgasm-and-the-west-a-history-of-pleasure-from-the-16th-century-to-the-present-hardback-9780745638751","title":"Orgasm and the West; A History of Pleasure from the 16th Century to the Present (Hardback) 9780745638751","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOrgasm and the West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History of Pleasure from the 16th Century to the Present\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Muchembled (Author), David Fernbach (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745638751, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 October 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 3 cm, 0.617 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A bold book by a great historian.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"A book that is readable AND sexy, the history of \u003ci\u003eOrgasm and the West\u003c\/i\u003e is the sort of cultural history that enables one to connect our bodies to our past – and our future. A brilliant and exciting addition to the newest thinking about the history of the body!\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSander Gilman, author of \u003ci\u003eSexuality: An Illustrated History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sexual repression has never had such a good press ... Muchembled's encyclopaedic knowledge of European culture from the Renaissance onwards invites intricate dissection.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistory Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCan the orgasm be explained in historical terms? An almost incommunicable individual emotion yet also a cultural reality, the orgasm is part of, but also escapes, collective experience. The history of the orgasm is that of the hidden body, of forbidden desires, of flesh constrained by taboos and morality. Buried deep in archives and libraries, the documents that shed light on this physical, sometimes libertine, life are nevertheless surprisingly plentiful and have a surprisingly evocative charge. Robert Muchembled's book unearths fascinating sources which suggest that we need to look with a fresh eye at the past and realize that the sublimation of the erotic impulse was far more than simple religious asceticism: it was the hidden driving force of the West until the 1960s. \u003cp\u003eIn the sphere of sexual pleasure, England and France have followed parallel paths. The United States remains deeply influenced by this common repressive model, which hedonist Europe has recently abandoned in favour of a malleable sexuality of which woman are the chief beneficiaries. Liberated by the pill from the dangers and anxieties associated with the obligations of reproduction, they can now claim equality with men and uninhibitedly claim pleasure and the orgasm for themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContents. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 1 Orgasm and the West.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Carnal Knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe birth of the individual.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Renaissance or capitalism?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe individual and transgression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe envelopes of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond the Subject.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs everything sex?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFoucault’s paradigms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe three stages of sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe family and the flesh.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrustrated young men.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSodomites: a ‘third sex’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA new sexual system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe conquest of female pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe erotic revolution of the sixties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Cherchez la femme!’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fountain of pleasures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2 Imprints. Pleasure in Pain (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Masculine, feminine: the person and their body.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepresenting and talking about oneself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe individual enmeshed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fragility of the Self.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe role of women.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeak women.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFemale roles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen rebels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fluidity of bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Carnal Pleasures, Mortal Sins.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForbidden passions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe joys of sex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeasant eroticism in Somerset.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBawdy culture in France.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eL’École des filles, a libertine gem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePleasure and sin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomosexuality in transition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe burning of a pornographer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePleasure and the disruption of the established order.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 3 Cycles. Vice and Virtue (1700-1960).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 The Eroticism of the Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe pornographic flood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA literature of transgression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe market in desire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese books that dimmed the lights of the Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeasuring sex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePleasure - in moderation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrgasm and marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe masculine double standard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo pleasure outside the vagina.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe crusade against onanism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe art of the ‘I’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhores, drunks and vicious apprentices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemonized biographies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe pleasures of the imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Beneath the Victorian Veil (1800-1960).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eControlling sex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial roles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe new medical religion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNudity and body hair.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexuality, a shameful, even fatal, sickness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe age of anxiety.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSemen wasted, death assured: the great fear of masturbation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVenal pleasures and fallen women.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough the looking glass.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalter the Victorian.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ‘hell’ of sex: pornography prospers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking the ‘transgressions’ ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProletarian pleasures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ebbs and flows of the desire for pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 4 Revolutions? The heritage of the Sixties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 The era of pleasure (from 1960 to our own day).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA sexual bombshell: the Kinsey Report.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe origins of the ‘culture wars’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomosexuality and masturbation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA hidden erotic culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe survival of a sexual double standard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe discovery of the female orgasm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFemale pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe contraceptive revolutions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGood vibrations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards a new sexual contract?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanges to the code of love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe right to sexual pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGay marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eErotic equality and simultaneous orgasm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe sexual revolution today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion The narcissistic society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe values of the hedonists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNarcissism and culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407302684952,"sku":"9780745638751","price":56.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745638751.jpg?v=1784160182","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/orgasm-and-the-west-a-history-of-pleasure-from-the-16th-century-to-the-present-hardback-9780745638751","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}