The Languages of Sexuality

by Jeffrey Weeks and Jeffrey Weeks

Book Overview

Words, Freud once wrote, are magic. Nowhere have words been more magical than in the writing of sexuality. Through words and concepts we learn what is good or bad, pleasurable or painful, significant and insignificant. The terms we use about sexuality do not simply describe something out there. They help shape what sexuality is.

The Languages of Sexuality offers concise and incisive essays on key words and concepts which have played...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415375738
• ISBN13: 9780415375733
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"