Cover; Consuming Desire; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Dissolution of Political Economy; 2. The Emergence of Sexology; 3. Evolution and Devolution; 4. Democratization and Degeneration; 5. Sexuality and History; 6. Society and Sexology; 7. The Disintegration of Holism; Epilogue: ""The Sexual Counterrevolution"" in Historical Perspective; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary
Consuming Desire investigates why a science of sex emerged when it did at the turn of the twentieth century and delivers a provocative account of the role of sexology in our contemporary culture. Examining key texts in the theories of sexuality, psychoanalysis, evolution, and economics, Lawrence Birken illuminates the intellectual heritage of sexology and the ways in which it is now being pressed into the service of sexual counterrevolutionaries from both the right and the left
