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Through a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary approach, this introductory textbook focuses on critical issues of development, environment, and cultural conflicts facing most area of the non-Western world. Areas covered include China, Japan, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Why Study the History of Sexuality? -- I. LOVE -- Chapter 2 Civilisation and Feelings -- Chapter 3 Love and Love Affairs in the Sixteenth Century -- Chapter 4 The Créantailles Rite in Troyes between the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Chapter 5 Love and Marriage in the Eighteenth Century -- II. SEXUAL MORALITY AND MARITAL RELATIONS -- Chapter 6 The Christian Doctrine of Marriage -- Chapter 7 Contraception, Marriage, and Sexual Relations in the Christian West -- Chapter 8 Man and Wife in the Marriage Bed -- III. THE CHILD AND PROCREATION -- Chapter 9 Childhood and Society -- Chapter 10 Attitudes towards Young Children and Sexual Behaviour -- Chapter 11 Ancient and Modern Adages Concerning the Child within the Family -- Chapter 12 The Young Woman in Ancient French Proverbs -- IV. THE SEX LIVES OF SINGLE PEOPLE -- Chapter 13 Late Marriages and Sex Lives -- Chapter 14 Repression and Change in the Sex Lives of Young People -- Chapter 15 Family Life and Illicit Love in England -- Notes and References -- Index.

This new edition is fully updated and revised, incorporating the massive changes in the USSR and China in the 1980's. It offers a series of case-studies charting the progress and assessing the achievement of six industrializing countries outside the Western World. It covers the whole range of economic approaches, from those depending wholly on market forces to those that are completely planned