Dangerous sexualities : medico-moral politics in England since 1830 / Frank Mort
- Bib ID:
- 1825595
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mort, Frank
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000
- xxviii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0415167337
- 0415167345 (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Narratives of sex
- Pt. 1. Moral environmentalism 1830-1860. 1. Cholera. 2. James Phillips Kay. 3. Eighteenth-century social medicine and philanthropy. 4. Experts and their concepts. 5. Science and religion. 6. Medico-moral politics implemented? 7. De-coding morality: the domain of the sexual. 8. Hygienics and bourgeois hegemony. 9. Working-class female sexuality and professional masculinity. 10. Hierarchies of expertise: female philanthropy and the gendered politics of reform. 11. Conclusion
- Pt. 2. The sanitary principle in dominance: medical hegemony and feminist response 1860-1880. 1. Medical hegemony and social policy 1850-1870. 2. The Contagious Diseases Acts and mid-Victorian social reform. 3. Female sexuality. 4. Male desire. 5. The repeal campaign and the collapse of the medico-moral alliance. 6. Religion, morality and repeal feminism. 7. Women and social disciplining.
- Pt. 3. From state medicine to criminal law: purity, feminism and the state 1880-1914. 1. Prologue. 2. The eclipse of state medicine. 3. Purity and science. 4. Purity and populism. 5. Speaking out. 6. Feminism and social purity. 7. Ellice Hopkins. 8. Purity, feminism and the reluctant state. 9. The compromise solution. 10. Suffrage and sexuality: 1908-1914. 11. Mobilising a language. 12. Petitioning the state. 13. The libertarian challenge. 14. Conclusion
- Pt. 4. From purity to social hygiene: early twentieth-century campaigns for sex education. 1. The Dronfield case: the teacher and the girls she told. 2. In corpore sano. 3. Racial health. 4. Social and moral hygiene. 5. Feminist responses. 6. Sex education. 7. The construction of sexual difference: advice to girls. 8. Masculinity. 9. School sex hygiene teaching: competing strategies. 10. The state sex hygiene. 11. The personal and the political. 12. Purity politics in decline. 13. Conclusion.
- Notes:
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- Previous ed., 1987.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-241) and index.
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