UID:
edoccha_9958106121002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (293 p.)
Ausgabe:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
1-134-70514-X
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0-203-44756-5
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1-280-31867-8
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9786610318674
Inhalt:
This long-awaited new edition of Frank Mort's classic examines ideas of health and illness and their links to moral and immoral notions of sex, from 1830 to the present day. Includes new studies of eugenics, race hygiene and social imperialism.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Note on the second edition; Introduction to the second edition; Acknowledgements to the first edition; Introduction: Narratives of sex; Moral environmentalism 1830 1860; Cholera; James Phillips Kay; Eighteenth-century social medicine and philanthropy; Experts and their concepts; Science and religion; Medico-moral politics implemented?; De-coding morality: the domain of the sexual; Hygienics and bourgeois hegemony; Working-class female sexuality and professional masculinity
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Hierarchies of expertise: female philanthropy and the gendered politics of reformConclusion; The sanitary principle in dominance: medical hegemony and feminist response 1860 1880; Medical hegemony and social policy 1850 1870; The Contagious Diseases Acts and mid-Victorian social reform; Female sexuality; Male desire; The repeal campaign and the collapse of the medico-moral alliance; Religion, morality and repeal feminism; Women and social disciplining; From state medicine to criminal law: purity, feminism and the state 1880 1914; Prologue; The eclipse of state medicine; Purity and science
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Purity and populismSpeaking out; Feminism and social purity; Ellice Hopkins; Purity, feminism and the reluctant state; The compromise solution; Suffrage and sexuality: 1908 1914; Mobilising a language; Petitioning the state; The libertarian challenge; Conclusion; From purity to social hygiene: early twentieth-century campaigns for sex education; The Dronfield case: the teacher and the girls she told; In corpore sano; Racial health; Social and moral hygiene; Feminist responses; Sex education; The construction of sexual difference: advice to girls; Masculinity
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School sex hygiene teaching: competing strategiesThe state and sex hygiene; The personal and the political; Purity politics in decline; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Selected bibliography; Additional bibliography; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-16734-5
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-16733-7
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203447567
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