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ISBN
9780307271990
Genre
Algemeen
Verschenen
02-06-2009
Bindwijze
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Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Auteur(s)
Richard Bernstein
The East, the West, and Sex
A History of Erotic Encounters
Richard Bernstein
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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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