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7 produkter
Sex and Punishment
Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
Häftad, 2013
158 kr
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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 …
Dangerous Ideas
A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News
Inbunden, 2021
248 kr
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The urge to censor is as old as the urge to speak. From the first Chinese emperor’s wholesale elimination of books to the Vatican’s suppression of pornography, right up to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the advent of Internet troll armies in this century, words, images and ideas have always been …
Sex and Punishment
Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
E-bok, 2012
175 kr
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The “raging frenzy” of the sex drive, to use Plato’s phrase, has always defied control. However, that’s not to say that the Sumerians, Victorians, and every civilization in between and beyond have not tried, wielding their most formidable weapon: the law. At any given point in time, some forms of …
Boundaries of Desire
A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
E-bok, 2015
209 kr
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The act of reproduction, and all of its variants, have been practiced in roughly the same ways since the beginning, but our ideas about the meaning and consequences ¬of sex are in constant flux. At any given point in time, some forms of sex have been encouraged, while others have been punished …
Sex and Punishment
Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
E-bok, 2013
142 kr
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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 …
Dangerous Ideas
A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News
E-bok, 2021
229 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The urge to censor is as old as the urge to speak. From the first Chinese emperor''s wholesale elimination of books to the Vatican''s suppression of pornography, right up to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the advent of Internet troll armies in this century, words, images and ideas have always been …
