Let's talk about sex: histories of sexuality in Australia from federation to the pill

Title: Let's talk about sex: histories of sexuality in Australia from federation to the pill
Creator: Featherstone, Lisa
Relation: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/lets-talk-about-sex-16
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Resource Type: book
Date: 2011
Description: From the start of the new Australian nation in 1901, to the use of the female contraceptive pill in 1961, Let’s Talk About Sex explores the ways sexuality has been constructed, understood and experienced in Australia. Far from being something hidden and private, this work brings sexuality out into the open, and explains why sex is of social, cultural, political and economic importance. Let’s Talk About Sex is an inclusive history, surveying multiple and interwoven forms of sexuality, desire, pleasure, regulation and resistance. It begins with the long Victorian period: the hidden desires of women and the “hydraulic” sexual needs of men, both in the cities and on the frontier. It moves across the decades, considering heterosexuality, homosexuality, lesbians and nascent ideas about queer and sexual difference.
Subject: sexuality; Australia; heterosexuality; homosexuality; histories of sexuality
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1063909
Identifier: uon:17412
Identifier: ISBN:9781443827362
Language: eng