Sex
(from Civilization in The United States)
Unable to add items
Sorry, we're unable to add the item because your cart is already full.
Add to basket failed.
Please try again later
Add to wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Failed to remove from Wish List.
Please try again later
Adding to library failed
Please try again
Unable to follow podcast
Unable to unfollow podcast
Get 30 days of Standard free
€5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.
Buy Now for €5.89
-
Narrated by:
-
Eleesha Lewis
Parsons argues that American culture treats sexuality less as a natural part of human life than as a subject to be controlled, classified, and suppressed. She challenges restrictive divorce laws, the separation and suspicion between men and women, idealized notions of marital respectability, and the tendency to reduce relationships to fixed social roles rather than individual personalities.
Comparing American customs with European attitudes, Parsons explores how Puritan traditions, social expectations, and fear of open discussion shaped relationships between the sexes. She ultimately portrays American sexual culture as emotionally constrained and resistant to the honest examination necessary for personal and social maturity.
Originally published in the influential 1922 anthology Civilization in the United States, Sex offers a provocative historical perspective on sexuality, gender roles, marriage, and social conformity.
This work contains terminology and theories about sexuality that reflect the assumptions and limited scientific knowledge of its era.
Narrated by Eleesha Lewis.
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet