The Sex Lives of Australians

The Sex Lives of Australians
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Publisher : Black Inc.
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9781921870668
ISBN-13 : 1921870664
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Book Synopsis The Sex Lives of Australians by : Frank Bongiorno

Download or read book The Sex Lives of Australians written by Frank Bongiorno and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2013 ACT Book of the Year Award. Cross-dressing colonists, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes – here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-day In this highly readable social history, Frank Bongiorno uses striking examples to chart the changing sex lives of Australians. He shows how an overwhelmingly male penal colony gave rise to a rough and ready culture: the scarcity of women made for strange bedfellows, and the female minority was both powerful and vulnerable. Then came the Victorian era, in which fears of sodomy helped bring an end to the transportation of convicts. The twentieth century saw the rise of the sex expert. Tracing the story up to the present, Bongiorno shows how the quest for respectability always has another side to it, and how the contraceptive pill changed so much. Along the way he raises some intriguing questions – What did it mean to be a ‘mate’? How did modern warfare affect soldiers’ attitudes to sex? Why did the law ignore lesbianism for so long? – and introduces some remarkable characters, both reformers and radicals. This is a thought-provoking story of sex in Australia. With a foreword by Michael Kirby, AC CMG. Shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Awards and the 2013 NSW Premier's History Awards. “Bongiorno has written a major synthesis of an aspect too often forgotten in our historical memories.” - Australian Book Review 'Engaging, open-minded and humorous' – Bookseller+Publisher Magazine “Frank Bongiorno’s The Sex Lives of Australians is one of the most important works of Australian history to be published in the last decade.” - H-Net Review Frank Bongiorno is associate professor of history at the Australian National University and the co-author of A Little History of the Australian Labor Party (2011). He was the London correspondent for Inside Story and has been a regular contributor to the Canberra Times.


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