Making Sexual History

The first part of the book discusses writers on sexuality, from Havelock Ellis to more recent influential thinkers such as Michel Foucault. The secon part of the book explores the ways in which sociologists and historians have been rethinking sexuality, and how "the erotic" is being reinvented by new sexual and social movements. He examines the impact of AIDS as well as the gradual changes which have transformed personal lives in this century, and concludes with a review of attitudes and ideas at the end of the millenium.