Sex, Politics, and Social Change in the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries

The eighteenth-century “sexual revolution” cannot simply be explained as a consequence of economic or institutional factors—industrialization, agricultural revolution, secularization, or legal hindrances to marriages. The example of western Valais (Switzerland) shows that we have to deal with a complex configuration of factors. The micro-historical approach reveals that in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sexuality—and above all illicit sexuality—was a highly subversive force that was considerably linked to political innovation and probably more generally to historical change. Nonmarital sexuality was clearly tied to political dissent ant to innovative ways of behavior, both among the social elites and the common people. This behavior patterns influenced crucial evolutions in the social, cultural and economic history of the region

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