Polity

Capitalism has become so dominant that it is difficult to ever imagine a world in which its injustices and inequalities are not violently present. ...

Capitalism has become so dominant that it is difficult to ever imagine a world in which its injustices and inequalities are not violently present. ...

The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to...

The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to...

For centuries people have debated the nature of the human self. Running beneath these various arguments lie three certainties – we are born, reprod...

For centuries people have debated the nature of the human self. Running beneath these various arguments lie three certainties – we are born, reprod...

Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture provides the first comprehensive overview of desire and pleasure in western sexual culture. It argues that both...

Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture provides the first comprehensive overview of desire and pleasure in western sexual culture. It argues that both...

Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the...

Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the...

Why is it so hard to talk about sex and sexuality? In this crisp and compelling book, Amin Ghaziani provides a pithy introduction to the field of s...

Why is it so hard to talk about sex and sexuality? In this crisp and compelling book, Amin Ghaziani provides a pithy introduction to the field of s...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015Sex in China introduces readers to some of the dramatic shifts that have taken place in Chinese sexual be...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015Sex in China introduces readers to some of the dramatic shifts that have taken place in Chinese sexual be...

Media are central to our experiences and understandings of sex, whether in the form of familiar 'mainstream' genres, pornographies and other sex ge...

Media are central to our experiences and understandings of sex, whether in the form of familiar 'mainstream' genres, pornographies and other sex ge...

There are more ways of connecting and communicating via technology than ever before. Yet loneliness is on the rise as we begin to experience an 'at...

There are more ways of connecting and communicating via technology than ever before. Yet loneliness is on the rise as we begin to experience an 'at...

Those who love and live by art, tell us that it is the most exalted expression of civilized life. In this provocative new book Jonathan Dollimore a...

Those who love and live by art, tell us that it is the most exalted expression of civilized life. In this provocative new book Jonathan Dollimore a...

Intimacy, choice, movement – these are the elements which make up the desirable lifestyle in the mainstream of affluent societies. They also underm...

Intimacy, choice, movement – these are the elements which make up the desirable lifestyle in the mainstream of affluent societies. They also underm...

Susanna Rustin's Sexed is a radical retelling of the story of British feminism. Starting in the revolutionary 1790s and ending in the present day, ...

Sexology in Culture examines the impact of key writings by sexologists on English-speaking culture from the 1880s to the early 1940s. How influenti...