The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault #literature FOREWORD BY BEN STOKES

FOREWORD BY BEN STOKES

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OneworldISBN: 9780861546855Extent: 352 pages

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The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault #literature FOREWORD BY BEN STOKES'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism' Spectator We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an