Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe by Associate Annette F Timm
Explores the key transformations of sexual identities and sexuality in Europe since the French Revolution. Divided into five thematic chapters representing the critical moments in gender history, this book is designed to introduce students to the major issues surrounding gender and sexuality in modern European history.
'A very readable book'Times Higher Education'A worthwhile addition to upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of modern Europe.'Choice'This important book is organized around a key idea so obvious yet so often forgotten: that sexual difference has a history. There is a contingency, even arbitrariness in our concepts of masculinity, femininity, the body, sexuality, identity and even society, and these categories have changed dramatically over the two centuries or more covered by this book. But to understand that, and so much more in European history, we need to understand the complex history of gender. By exploring, in a readable and sophisticated way, key moments in the gender transformations since the 18th century, the authors have made an important contribution to our understanding of the history of sexual difference.'Professor Jeffrey Weeks, London South Bank University'This highly original and engaging interpretation of modern European history uses
Annette F. Timm is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Calgary, Canada. Joshua A. Sanborn is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Lafayette College, USA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845203573 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845203577 |
| Title | Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe |
| Author | Associate Annette F Timm |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2007-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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