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Desire

Desire

Anna Clark

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2019
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Historia
ISBN:
9780815352501

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A survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present, Desire follows changing attitudes to two major concepts of sexual desire - desire as dangerous, polluting, and disorderly, and desire as creative, transcendent, even revolutionary - through major turning points of European history.

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