Desire: A History of European Sexuality - Paperback

by Anna Clark (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Anna Clark is the author of Women's Silence, Men's Violence: Sexual Assault in England, 1770-1845 (1987), The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (1995), Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution (2003), and Alternative Histories of the Self: A Cultural History of Sexuality and Secrets (2017). She is a professor at the University of Minnesota, USA.