Being on top
John Ryle, 20 February 1986
The History of Sexuality. Vol. II: The Use of Pleasure
by Michel Foucault, translated by Robert Hurley.
Pantheon, 293 pp., $17.95, December 1985,0 394 54349 1 Show More
by Michel Foucault, translated by Robert Hurley.
Pantheon, 293 pp., $17.95, December 1985,
Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times
by Philippe Ariès and André Béjin, translated by Anthony Forster.
Blackwell, 220 pp., £17.50, April 1985,9780631134763 Show More
by Philippe Ariès and André Béjin, translated by Anthony Forster.
Blackwell, 220 pp., £17.50, April 1985,
No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880
by Allan Brandt.
Oxford (New York), 245 pp., £18.50, August 1985,0 19 503469 4 Show More
by Allan Brandt.
Oxford (New York), 245 pp., £18.50, August 1985,
“... What is more important: is it the project of understanding why sexual desire is, or has become, a problem for us like no other, fraught with particular anxiety and special perplexity; or is it the task of establishing – maintaining, perhaps – principles according to which this desire can be regulated, guided, temporised? The change in relations between the sexes and the concomitant change in relations between members of the same sex, the double alteration that has come over us in the last two or three generations makes a certain kind of intellectual investigation possible for the first time ... ”
