ISBN:
9780253053084
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0253053080
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9780253053091
,
0253053099
Language:
English
Pages:
255 Seiten
Series Statement:
New anthropologies of europe
Uniform Title:
Płeć przyjemność i przemoc
Parallel Title:
Online version Kościańska, Agnieszka Gender, pleasure, and violence
DDC:
305.3094380904
Keywords:
Geschichte 1945-1989
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Geschlechterverhältnis
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Geschlechterpolitik
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Gewalt
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Sexualität
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Frau
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Polen
Abstract:
"Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West. While Polish citizens undoubtedly suffered under the oppressive totalitarianism of socialism, abortion was legal, clear laws protected victims of rape, and it was relatively easy to legally change one's gender. In Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, Agnieszka Kościańska reveals that sexologists-experts such as physicians, therapists, and educators-not only treated patients but also held sex education classes at school, published regular columns in the press, and authored highly popular sex manuals that sold millions of copies. Yet strict gender roles within the home meant that true equality was never fully within reach. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and archival work, Kościańska shares how professions like sexologists defined the notions of sexual pleasure and sexual violence under these sweeping cultural changes. By tracing the study of sexual human behavior as it was developed and professionalized in Poland since the 1960s, Gender, Pleasure, and Violence explores how the collapse of socialism brought both restrictions in gender rights and new opportunities
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Part 1. Sexology and society -- The development of sexology and sexual rights activism in Europe and the United States -- The Polish school of sexology -- Part 2. Pleasure: toward good sex -- Sexuality and scientific knowledge -- "Civilized" sex and gender relations under socialism -- Gender and pleasure in expert discourse today -- Part 3. Violence: expert discourse of rape -- Rape: definitions, legal understanding,and statistics -- The provocative victim and the male limits of self-restraint: stereotypes in expert literature -- In the courtroom -- Feminism: changes in expert discourse and in the courtroom
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