Dangerous sexualities : medico-moral politics in England since 1830 / Frank Mort.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mort, Frank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual ethics--England--History.

Sexual ethics.

Sexual health--England--History.

Sexual health.

Public health--England--History.

Public health.

England--Moral conditions.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-241) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-70514-X

0-203-44756-5

1-280-31867-8

9786610318674

9780203447567

OCLC:

475877088