The Sexual Century

by Ethel Spector Person

Over the past century, sexual liberation has transformed the way in which most of us regard our bodies and live our sexual lives. In this book a preeminent psychoanalytic theoretician on sex and gender examines this unquiet revolution, including the roles played by sexologists and psychoanalysts, antibiotics and birth control, the liberation movements, and Freud`s insights.

387 pages, Hardcover

First published November 10, 1999

About the author

Ethel Person, a Columbia University psychiatrist, did pioneering research on sexuality, visiting sex shops and drag dance clubs to help herself understand what motivates transsexuals and transvestites, and conducting broad-based clinical studies on the role of sexual fantasy in people’s lives.

Dr. Person wrote frequently on love and sexuality for general-interest publications and was the author of four books, the best known of which is By Force of Fantasy: How We Make Our Lives (1995), in which she argued that people shaped their lives by trying consciously or unconsciously to live out their fantasies.