| Description |
xii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
pt. I. From the Restoration to Victoria -- Introduction: Histories of Sex. 1. Contexts: from the Restoration to the Accession of Queen Victoria. 2. Medical Folklore in High and Low Culture: Aristotle's Master-Piece. 3. Doctors and the Medicalization of Sex in the Enlightenment. 4. Masturbation in the Enlightenment: Knowledge and Anxiety. 5. Quackery and Erotica -- pt. II. The Victorians and Beyond -- Introduction: Towards Victoria. 6. The Victorian Polyphony, 1850-85. 7. From the Primeval Protozoa to the Laboratory: the Evolution of Sexual Science from 1889 to the 1930s. 8. The Authority of Individual Experience and the Opinions of Experts: Sex as a Social Science. 9. 'Good Sex': the New Rhetoric of Conjugal Relations. 10. Public Faces in Private Places: Sex, Law, Politics and Pressure Groups. 11. Silent Stares, Smut, Censorship and Surgical Stores: the Makings of Popular Sexual Knowledges. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [354]-397) and index. |
| Subject |
Sexology -- Great Britain -- History.
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Sex instruction literature -- Great Britain -- History.
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Sex instruction -- history -- Great Britain.
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Sex instruction -- Great Britain.
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| Indexed Term |
Sexuality History |
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Great Britain |
| Added Author |
Hall, Lesley A.
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| ISBN |
0300062214 |
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