The History of Sexuality: 1 QL1 The Story of the Night

The Story of the Night is a powerful and moving novel about a man who

and now they are barely speaking

' Out at the Forty Foot

'Rose Queen'

' - Dr Emma Vickers

The History of Sexuality: 1 QL1 The Story of the Night'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism' Spectator We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an