Summary
Dagmar Herzog: Sexuality in Europe of the 20th century
Sex work, the emancipation of female sexuality, sexology, contraception, abortion, pornography, homophobia, the birth and rise of the LGBT movement, sexual reforms and revolutions, the birth of "romantic love", sexual violence, the birth of egalitarian marriage, the culture wars of the 1980s, the neoconservative reaction to a century of sexual reforms, life partnership and marriage equality... The history of sexuality in Twentieth-century Europe cannot be reduced to one plot and a handful of main characters, on the contrary, it forks into countless branches, abounds in tragic, sometimes tragicomic twists, devastating and triumphant denouements, moments of curiosity, suffering and fear and, perhaps most importantly, moments of unprecedented resistance and courage.
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