The Sexual Imagination
From Acker to Zola - A Feminist Companion
Published on 19. August 1993
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304 pages
978-0-224-03535-4 (ISBN)
Description
A 400 page companion to the major religious, scientific political and philosophical theories about sexuality and to a selection of the artists whose work has attempted to understand and represent the subject. The range is from writers like Martin Amis, Angela Carter, Norman Mailer and Jeanette Winterson, through AIDS, Cross Dressing, Islam, theorists like de Sade and Foucault, to popular art like Comics, Barbara Cartland and Jacqueline Susann. Designed to be dipped into, and across varied entries.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
36 b&w plates
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
856 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-224-03535-4 (9780224035354)
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Harriet Gilbert is a writer and broadcaster: her novels inlcude The Riding Mistress and Hotels with Empty Rooms and she is co-author, with Christine Roche, of A Women's History of Sex. She lives in London.