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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates ...: Homer-Marx. 1876
The collections of the Advocates Library, with the exception of its legal books and manuscripts, were given by the Advocates to the National Library of Scotland in 1925.
The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race
The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race explores a fundamental and often overlooked connection between modern European conceptions of gender and race. Starting in the eighteenth century, these conceptions have intermeshed through a racialized gender‐binary ideal for the male‐female couple that, supposedly, only Europeans embody. Through an exploration of various expressions of this racial gender-binary ideal, this book illuminates the deep connections between categories of race, sex/gender, and sexuality and the social hierarchies they support. This book also explores how the racial gender‐binary ideal has both shaped fin‐de‐siècle arguments for the respectability of male homo...
Manhood Perfectly Restored
Manhood Perfectly Restored is the Civiale Remedial Agency's 19th-century handbook on medicine, culture, and quackery. It is a thorough investigation of the treatment of genito-urinary disorders in older times, and their attempt to explain certain disorders and diseases.
Mettray
The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents. Foucault linked its opening to the most significant change in the modern status of prisons and now, at last, Stephen Toth takes us behind the gates to show how the institution legitimized France's repression of criminal youth and added a unique layer to the nation's carceral system. Drawing on insights from sociology, criminology, critical theory, and social history, Stephen Toth dissects Mettray's social anatomy, exploring inmates' experiences. More than 17,000 young men passed through the reformatory before its closure, and Toth situates their st...
