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Sex: Lessons From History Kindle Edition

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Out now: the new book by Dr Fern Riddell, a powerful and entertaining history of sex. Revised and updated.
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These are the facts: throughout history human beings have had sex. Sexual culture did not begin in the sixties. It has always been celebrated, needed, wanted and desired part of what it means to be human.

So: what can learn by looking at the sexual lives of our ancestors? What does it tell us about our attitudes and worries today, and how can the past teach us a better way of looking forward?

In this wide-ranging and powerful new history of sex, Dr Fern Riddell will uncover the sexual lives of our ancestors and show that, just like us, they were as preoccupied with sexual identities, masturbation, foreplay, sex, deviance; facing it with the same confusion, joy and accidental hilarity that we do today.

Sex: Lessons from History is a revealing and fascinating look at how we've always been obsessed with how sex makes us who we are.
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June 3, 2021
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Dr Fern Riddell is a historian specialising in sex, suffrage and culture in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. She appears regularly on TV and radio, and writes for the Guardian, Huffington Post, Telegraph and Times Higher Education among others, and is a columnist for BBC History Magazine. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Sex: Lessons from History is a furious and unflinching manifesto that debunks the many myths and misconceptions surrounding sex and sexuality. It is packed full of fascinating and provocative historical insights on the place sex has in our lives. -- Kate Wiles, History Today

Sex, in all its joyous, terrifying, disgusting, dangerous, criminalised, queer, constrained and kinky forms, is perhaps the constant major theme of human culture. Riddell's wonderful, erudite book simultaneously uses sex as a lens to understand modern English history, and modern English history to understand sex. The story is by turns horrifying, hilarious, enlightening and terrifying. -- Matt Lodder --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08531GWNS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hodder & Stoughton (June 3, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 3, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 675 KB
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 340 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1473666252

Best Sellers Rank: #586,233 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #54 in Human Sexuality
- #179 in Human Sexuality Studies
- #457 in History of LGBTQ+ & Gender Studies

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Dr Fern Riddell is a cultural historian, and an expert in sex, suffrage and entertainment in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Host of The History Channel's Podcast series #NotWhatYouThought and Presenter of BBC 4's 'A Victorian Scandal: The Rudest Book in Britain', Her first book, The Victorian Guide To Sex, tackled the myths of Victorian prudishness.

Death In Ten Minutes is an explosive account of the Suffragette bomber and birth control activist, Kitty Marion. Fern's unique research into the suffragettes, taken from Death In Ten Minutes, was used in the BAFTA Nominated documentary 'Suffragettes with Lucy Worseley'. Her next book, ‘Sex: Lessons From History’, is an exploration of the attitudes and identities western society has had towards sex.

Historical Consultant for the BAFTA award-winning BBC and Amazon drama Ripper Street, she has advised on dramas for both the BBC and ITV2. As an on screen expert, she has appeared on documentaries for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky Arts, Smithsonian, BBC Radio 3 and 4, and has appeared as an expert historian for radio and television across the world, working with both Audible and Spotify.

She writes for The Guardian, Huffington Post, Times Higher Education, The Telegraph, The New Statesman, History Today and BBC History Magazine. Her work has also appeared in THE DAILY MAIL, Penthouse and Time.COM.

Represented by Kirsty McLachlan, Morgan Green Creatives

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FrancesM

Let down by the publisher

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2022

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This was an interesting book, in spite of all the typos, poor grammar and inconsistency in the footnotes which should have been picked up by a competent copy-editor. The author has been seriously let down by her publisher in this regard.

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Rachel

Mostly enjoyable…

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2021

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The first half was great and pretty much what I thought it might be - sexual history spanning hundreds of years. The book is divided into topics, and as I say the topics of the first half span a long time. But towards the end it focuses mostly on Victorian onwards, with just a few passing comments to anything earlier than the 19th century on that topic.

Incidentally there are more than a few spelling, grammatical and incorrect word errors (eg page 222 use of “illicit” rather than “elicit” - it needs re-proofreading.

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folkfan

What a shame this was barely touched by an editor or proof reader!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 27, 2021

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Not much wrong with this book's content. Nothing ground breaking, but competently enough put together. But, oh! The typos!
... including fulfilling the acts of a martial bed.
While the emphasis on women who cross dressed and lived as men became a romanticised female aspiration. But their reality etc
for a myriad of offences

They are just in three pages and there are many, many more. Shame on you, Hodder and also on the author to miss these howlers. Okay, I put my hand up, I am an editor by trade, so I notice this stuff but it is years since I read anything this bad from such a major publisher.

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Rosalie449

An important, readable and well researched book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 1, 2021

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This is an important book that I enjoyed from start to finish. Sex is such a big topic, but the author manages to cover a lot of ground whilst being thorough in her research. Would recommend to everyone as a must have for the book shelf!

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