Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science
by Lucy Bland, Laura Doan
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Sexology Uncensored brings together, for the first time,many of the key documents of the modern science of sexuality thatemerged in the late nineteenth century. The early pioneers of thenew field of sexology examined and classified sexual behaviours,identities and relations. For years much of the material here hasbeen "censored" - difficult to obtain, subject to restrictivecirculation, or available only in medical archives. This volumeoffers readers access to the primary materials on show more whichcontemporary sexology is founded and, as such, it is an invaluablerecord for all those interested in how we have come to think aboutsex and sexuality over the last one hundred years. The extracts in Sociology Uncensored (which date from the1880s to the 1940s) are organized thematically: gender and sexualdifference; homosexualities; transsexuality and bisexuality;heterosexuality; marriage and sex manuals; reproductive control;eugenics; race; and other sexual proclivities. This book will be essential reading for researchers, teachersand students interested in the history and study of sex and ofgreat interest to the general reader. show lessTags
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Lucy Bland is Research Fellow in History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
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- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, History, Sociology, Anthropology, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 306.709 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Sexual relations Biography And History
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- HQ60 .S4965 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sexual life Sex instruction and sexual ethics
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