Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-moral Politics in England Since 1830Dangerous Sexualities takes a look at how our ideas of health and disease are linked to moral and immoral notions of sex. Beginning in the 1830s, Frank Mort relates his social historical narratives to the sexual choices and possibilities facing us now. |
Contents
Narratives of sex | 1 |
Moral environmentalism 18301860 | 9 |
Cholera | 11 |
James Phillips Kay | 15 |
Eighteenthcentury social medicine and philanthropy | 18 |
Experts and their concepts | 20 |
Science and religion | 24 |
Medicomoral politics implemented? | 26 |
Ellice Hopkins | 93 |
Purity feminism and the reluctant state | 98 |
The compromise solution | 101 |
Suffrage and sexuality 19081914 | 106 |
Mobilising a language | 108 |
Petitioning the state | 109 |
The Libertarian challenge | 114 |
Conclusion | 116 |
Decoding morality the domain of the sexual | 29 |
Hygienics and bourgeois heremony | 33 |
Workingclass female sexuality and professional masculinity | 37 |
Hierarchies of expertise female philanthropy and the gendered politics of reform | 42 |
Conclusion | 47 |
The sanitary principle in dominance medical hegemony and feminist response 18601880 | 49 |
Medical hegemony and social policy 18501870 | 51 |
The Contagious Diseases Acts and midVictorian social reform | 54 |
Female sexuality | 60 |
Male desire | 64 |
The repeal campaign and the collapse of the medicomoral alliance | 67 |
Religion morality and repeal ferminism | 71 |
Women and social disciplining | 73 |
From state medicine to criminal law purity feminism and the state 18801914 | 79 |
Prologue | 81 |
The eclipse of state medicine | 83 |
Purity and science | 86 |
Purity and populism | 88 |
speaking out | 89 |
Feminism and social purity | 91 |
From purity to social hygiene early twentiethcentury campaigns for sex education | 119 |
The Dronfield case the teacher and the girls she told | 121 |
In corpore sano | 129 |
Racial health | 133 |
Social and moral hygiene | 136 |
Feminist reponses | 141 |
Sex education | 144 |
The contruction of sexual difference advice to girls | 149 |
Masculinity | 152 |
School sex hygiene teaching competing strategies | 154 |
The state and sex hygiene | 156 |
The personal and the political | 157 |
Purity politics in decline | 160 |
Conclusion | 163 |
Epilogue | 165 |
Notes | 173 |
Selected bibliography | 209 |
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