Gebr. - Storia della sessualità - libri usati

"This book opens a series of studies that do not claim to be continuous, or exhaustive; it will be some survey in a complex territory. The dream would be a long-term effort, able to correct itself gradually developing, open to reactions that elicits, at junctures that he will have to meet, and perhaps a new hypothesis. Readers who are expected to learn in that way for centuries people have made love, or how it was forbidden to do so - serious problem, important, difficult -, are likely to be disappointed. I did not want to do a history of sexual behavior in Western societies, but treat a much more austere and circumscribed ways in which these behaviors have become objects of knowledge? How, ie by what means and for what reasons, we have organized this field of knowledge, with a word recently, called sexuality? What readers will find here is the genesis of knowledge - a knowledge that I would like to recapture the root, place of worship, in the forms educational, medical practices, family structures, where it is made, but also in the effects of coercion that could have on individuals, once they had persuaded the task of discovering in themselves the strength of a secret and dangerous sexuality . " (From the author's preface to the Italian edition)