Controlling Desires av Kirk Ormand

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<P>“Comprehensive, reader-friendly, richly detailed, forthright, subtle, and very clear, <I>Controlling Desires</I> is the only handbook on ancient sexuality that works persistently to offset modern readers’ assumptions about sex and sexuality, to challenge the notion that sexuality is natural and universal, and to bring out the differences between ancient and modern discourses of sex—or, even, between ancient and modern experiences of desire. As such, it is a very helpful resource for students working on the history of sexuality in classical antiquity, because it shows how such a history might be possible and what is actually historical about sexuality.”<BR/>—David M. Halperin, University of Michigan, author of <I>One Hundred Years of Homosexuality</I>, <I>Saint Foucault</I>, and <I>How to Do the History of Homosexuality</I></P><P>Since its first publication in 2009, <I>Controlling Desires</I> has been widely lauded as an accessible introduction to sexua