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Shaping Sexual Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 349

Shaping Sexual Knowledge

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-01-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The history of sex education enables us to gain valuable insights into the cultural constructions of what different societies have defined as 'normal' sexuality and sexual health. Yet, the history of sex education has only recently attracted the full attention of historians of modern sexuality. Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe makes a considerable contribution not only to the cultural history of sexual enlightenment and identity in modern Europe, but also to the history of childhood and adolescence. The essays collected in this volume treat sex education in the broadest sense, incorporating all aspects of the formal and informal shaping of sexual knowledge and awareness of the young. The volume, therefore, not only addresses officially-sanctioned and regulated sex education delivered within the school system and regulated by the State and in some cases the Church, but also the content, iconography and experience of sexual enlightenment within the private sphere of the family and as portrayed through the media.

Krankheit, Sexualität, Gesellschaft
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 550

Krankheit, Sexualität, Gesellschaft

Die Monographie untersucht erstmals die Hintergrunde der seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts gefuhrten offentlichen Diskussion uber Geschlechtskrankheiten. Analysiert werden die bis zum Ende der Weimarer Republik zur Bekampfung der Geschlechtskrankheiten ergriffenen Maanahmen zur Gesundheitsfursorge, Gesundheits- und Sexualerziehung sowie zur Kontrolle und Uberwachung Geschlechtskranker (Meldepflicht, Zwangsbehandlung, Eheverbot etc.). "Was das Thema uber seine historische Dimension hinaushebt, ist die Tatsache, dass die Diskussion sehr viele Parallelen zur AIDS-Diskussion im vergangenen Jahrzehnt aufweist: Meldepflicht, Zwangsmaanahmen, Uberwachung, (Sexual-)Aufklarung, Eigenverantwortung des Bu...

Sexual Politics and Feminist Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Sexual Politics and Feminist Science

Introduction : women and sexology : knowledge, possibilities, and problematic legacies -- The emergence of sexology in early twentieth century Germany -- As natural as eating, drinking, and sleeping : redefining the female sex -- Challenging the limits of sex : envisioning new gendered subjectivities and sexualities -- Troubling normal, taking on patriarchy : criticizing male (hetero)sexuality -- The erotics of racial regeneration : eugenics, maternity, and sexual -- New social and moral values will have to prevail : negotiating crisis and opportunity in the First World War -- Fluid gender, rigid sexuality : constrained potential in the post-war period

The First World War and Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 540

The First World War and Health

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-04-14
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The First World War and Health: Rethinking Resilience aims to broaden the scope of resilience by looking at it from military, medical, personal and societal perspectives. The authors ask how war influenced the health – both physically and psychologically – of those fighting and attending the wounded, as well as the general health of the community of which they were part.

In Search of
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

In Search of "Aryan Blood"

Explores the course of development of German seroanthropology from its origins in World War I until the end of the Third Reich. Gives an all encompassing interpretation of how the discovery of blood groups in around 1900 galvanised not only old mythologies of blood and origin but also new developments in anthropology and eugenics in the 1920s and 1930s. Boaz portrays how the personal motivations of blood scientists influenced their professional research, ultimately demonstrating how conceptually indeterminate and politically volatile the science of race was under the Nazi regime.

Sexuality and Consumption
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Sexuality and Consumption

The volumes in the series Werbung - Konsum - Geschichte investigate advertising, marketing, consumerism, and material culture both past and present by taking perspectives from the humanities, the social sciences, cultural studies, communication studies, and integrative scholarship. The series' editorial team aims to promote productive discursive and interdisciplinary exchange, and to provide fresh impetus for further research into these areas. Editorial board: Reinhild Kreis, Holger Schramm und Guido Zurstiege.

Medicine, Morality, and Political Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

Medicine, Morality, and Political Culture

How did governments in the past act to stop the spread of venereal disease? Did legislation reflect medical opinion, and how did it treat the interests represented by women's or homosexual organisations? How can similarities and differences in national legislation be explained? In this book celebrated historian Ida Blom analyses the political culture of five welfare states -- the three social-democratic states of Scandinavia, the conservative German state, and the liberal British state -- with a view to understanding how relations between the individual citizen and the state vary. Pointing to important differences between the Scandinavian countries, the book charts the interaction of medicine and sexual morality, indicating the influence -- or lack of influence -- of medical opinion, and the impact of debates about gender, sexuality, and religion on policies intended to combat venereal disease. Ida Blom identifies the far-reaching consequences of these policies, be they fresh solutions or repeats of past political decisions, and establishes their effectiveness in hindering the spread of disease.

Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 458

Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany

An important examination of the colorful histories of urbanization and social reform in Imperial Germany

Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 599

Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930

This book is a groundbreaking study of the historical reasons for the divergence in public health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to the threat of contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox and syphilis. In particular the book examines the link between politics and prevention. Did the varying political regimes influence the styles of precaution adopted? Or was it, as Peter Baldwin argues, a matter of more basic differences between nations, above all their geographic placement in the epidemiological trajectory of contagion, that helped shape their responses and their basic assumptions about the respective claims of the sick and of society, and fundamental political decisions for and against different styles of statutory intervention? Thus the book seeks to use medical history to illuminate broader questions of the development of statutory intervention and the comparative and divergent evolution of the modern state in Europe.

The Hidden Affliction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

The Hidden Affliction

Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the "historic" STIS--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across the globe and spanning millennia.