Abstract
The British profesor of Sociology, Anthony Giddens is considered one of the most important and most cited living social scientists in general. He is the autor of several dozen books.
He is famous especially for his theory of the society and exploration of modernity and globalization. He is also well known autor of Sociology textbooks.
The publication, which is the subject of this review, published in the original in 1992 under the title The Transformation of Intimacy, Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies, appeared in Czech translation by Ivo Možný in 2012 - twenty years later. Although Giddens decided to write about sex, later discovered that he writes also about love, which is inseparable from gender.
The work follows the social changes at several levels, particularly at the level of discourse in the field of intimacy, traces the development of sexuality, relationships, relationships between parents and children, and also examines the transformation of gender roles.