Sex and Punishment

Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Av Eric Berkowitz

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Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex.From the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde for ‘gross indecency’ in 1895, Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law. The cast of Sex and Punishment is as varied as the forms taken by human desire itself: royal mistresses, gay charioteers, medieval transvestites, lonely goat-lovers, prostitutes of all stripes and London rent boys. Each of them had forbidden sex, and each was judged – and justice, as Berkowitz shows – rarely had anything to do with it.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-04-03
Mått131 x 197 x 34 mm
Vikt444 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
FörlagSaqi Books
ISBN9781908906106

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Eric Berkowitz is a writer, lawyer and journalist. Before devoting his practice to public interest and asylum law, he practiced intellectual property and civil litigation in Los Angeles for more than twenty years. Berkowitz has published widely throughout his career, including investigative pieces in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, and articles in the Washington Post and The Economist, among others. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Contents: Introduction; One Channeling the Urge: The First Sex Laws; Two Honor among (Mostly) Men: Cases from Ancient Greece; Three Imperial Bedrooms: Sex and the State in Ancient Rome; Four The Middle Ages: A Crowd Condemned; Five Groping toward Modernity: The Early Modern Period, 1500 - 1700; Six The New World of Sexual Opportunity; Seven The Eighteenth Century: Revelation and Revolution; Eight The Nineteenth Century: Human Nature on Trial; Notes&; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo credits; Index