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East, The West, And Sex eBook

A History Of Erotic Encounters

de Richard Bernstein
idioma: inglês
Editor: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, junho de 2009 ‧
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In this wide-ranging history, Richard Bernstein explores the connection between sex and power as it has played out between Eastern cultures and the Western explorers, merchants, and conquerors who have visited them. This illuminating book describes the historical and ongoing encounter between these travelers and the morally ambiguous opportunities they found in foreign lands. Bernstein’s narrative teems with real figures, from Marco Polo and his investigation into the harem of Kublai Khan; the nineteenth-century American missionary Isabella Thoburn and her efforts to stamp out the "sinfulness" of the Mughal culture of India; Gustave Flaubert and his dalliances with Egyptian prostitutes; to modern-day sex tourists in Southeast Asia, as well as the women that they both exploit and enrich. Provocative and insightful, The East, The West, and Sex is a lucid look at a pervasive and yet mostly ignored subject.


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East, The West, And Sex

A History Of Erotic Encounters

de Richard Bernstein

Propriedade Descrição
ISBN: 9780307271990
Editor: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Data de Lançamento: junho de 2009
Idioma: Inglês
Tipo de produto: eBook
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Classificação Temática: eBooks em Inglês > Ciências Sociais e Humanas > Antropologia
eBooks em Inglês > Outros
EAN: 9780307271990
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