Pleasure Wars

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Pleasure Wars is a historical and cultural study by Peter Gay that examines changing Western attitudes toward pleasure, sexuality, and bourgeois life.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
historical study
non-fiction book
author Peter Gay
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
examines bourgeois values and private life
historical debates over pleasure and restraint
relationship between pleasure and morality in Western societies
fieldOfStudy European history
cultural studies
history of sexuality
modern history
focusesOn bourgeois life
changing Western attitudes toward pleasure
changing Western attitudes toward sexuality
genre cultural history
history
intellectual history
hasPerspective cultural
historical
psychohistorical
hasTheme bourgeois morality
conflict between pleasure and restraint
modernity and pleasure
private life and public norms
sexual liberation and its critics
intendedAudience general readers interested in cultural history
scholars
students
language English
mainSubject Western culture
bourgeoisie
cultural attitudes
pleasure
sexuality
social history
partOf Peter Gay's studies of the bourgeois experience
relatedWork Education of the Senses
The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud
surface form: The Bourgeois Experience

The Cultivation of Hatred
The Naked Heart
The Tender Passion
timePeriodCovered 19th century
20th century
modern Western history
writtenBy Peter Gay
surface form: Peter Gay, a German-American historian

cultural historian
historian

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Peter Gay notableWork Pleasure Wars
Education of the Senses relatedWork Pleasure Wars