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The Transformation of Intimacy

Paperback • 1993 • English

The Transformation of Intimacy

By Anthony Giddens

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About the book

The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does sexuality come into being and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life on a more general plane? In answering these questions, Anthony Giddens disputes many of the dominant interpretations of the role of sexuality in modern culture. The emergence of what the author calls plastic sexuality - sexuality freed from its intrinsic relation to reproduction - is analysed in...Show more

Society and Social Sciences
Society and culture: general
Sociology and anthropology

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ISBN

9780745612393

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

1993

Language

English

Original title

The Transformation of Intimacy

Format

Paperback

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