Sexual Revolutions

Gert Hekma is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. His research is on the sociology and history of homo/sexuality. He wrote numerous articles and edited many books on those subjects, most recently A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Modern Age (2011).Alain Giami is Research Professor at Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, France where he coordinates a multi-disciplinary group of researchers in the field of sexuality and social sciences. He has been working and writing for thirty years on relations between sexuality, medicine and health in a social context, and wrote many articles and edited books on those subjects in France and Brazil.

• 1. Sexual Revolutions: An Introduction; Gert Hekma and Alain Giami 2. Sexual Liberalism in Sweden; Lena Lennerhed 3. The Long Sexual Revolution: The Police and the New Gay Man; Peter Edelberg 4. A Radical Break with a Puritanical Past: The Dutch Case; Gert Hekma 5. Catholics and Sexual Change in Flanders; Wannes Dupont 6. The Long History of the 'Sexual Revolution' in West Germany; Franz Eder 7. Sexual Revolution(s) in Britain; Matt Cook 8. The Revival of Sexuality Studies in France in the Late 1950s; Sylvie Chaperon 9. Therapies of Sexual Liberation in France: Society, Sex and Self; Alain Giami 10. The Ambivalent Sexual Emancipation of Daniel Guérin; Rostom Mesli 11. The Gay Liberation Movement in France; Michael Sibalis 12. Pornography, Perversity and the Sexual Revolution; Jeffrey Escoffier 13. 'Sex Freedom Girls Speak Out': Women in Sexual Revolution; Massimo Perinelli 14. The Sexual Revolution in the USSR: Dynamics Beneath the Ice; Dan Healey 15. Abortion, Christianity, Disability: Western Europe; Dagmar Herzog 16. Paedophilia, Homosexuality and Gay and Lesbian Activism; David Paternotte