Gail Hawkes was born in Melbourne, Australia, where she initially pursued a career in nursing. Her undergraduate and doctoral studies, undertaken over the last ten years at the Victoria University of Manchester, concentrated in the area of historical sociology. She is currently employed as Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Manchester Metropolitan University.

• Series editor's prefaceThe specialness of sexSex and modernityEnlightenment pleasures and bourgeois anxietiesThe science of sexPlanning sexPleasurable sexLiberalizing heterosexuality?Subverting heterosexualityFinal thoughts and questionsIndex.

Gail Hawkes was born in Melbourne, Australia, where she initially pursued a career in nursing. Her undergraduate and doctoral studies, undertaken over the last ten years at the Victoria University of Manchester, concentrated in the area of historical sociology. She is currently employed as Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Manchester Metropolitan University.

• Series editor's prefaceThe specialness of sexSex and modernityEnlightenment pleasures and bourgeois anxietiesThe science of sexPlanning sexPleasurable sexLiberalizing heterosexuality?Subverting heterosexualityFinal thoughts and questionsIndex.

Gail Hawkes was born in Melbourne, Australia, where she initially pursued a career in nursing. Her undergraduate and doctoral studies, undertaken over the last ten years at the Victoria University of Manchester, concentrated in the area of historical sociology. She is currently employed as Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Manchester Metropolitan University.

• Series editor's prefaceThe specialness of sexSex and modernityEnlightenment pleasures and bourgeois anxietiesThe science of sexPlanning sexPleasurable sexLiberalizing heterosexuality?Subverting heterosexualityFinal thoughts and questionsIndex.