The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault

The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

The History of Sexuality #1

Michel Foucault with Robert Hurley (Translator)

168 pages first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Why has there been such a veritable explosion of discussion about sex in the West since the seventeenth century? How did we ever come to believe that our increasing talk about it would make us less repressed? In this first volume of his ambitious,...

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