Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-moral Politics in England Since 1830 Book

Dangerous Sexualities examines the ways in which perception of health and disease are linked to moral and immoral notions of sex and makes use of historical narratives to underpin contemporary debates concerning morality, sexuality and health with particular reference to AIDS. Part I covers moral environmentalism from 1830-1860 with chapters on cholera, eighteen-century social medicine, working-class female sexuality and professional masculinity. Part II discusses medical hegemony and the feminist response in the period 1860-1880 with chapters on the Contagious Diseases Acts, female sexuality and male desire, while Part III encompasses state medicine to criminal law, purity, feminism and the state 1880-1914. The final part examines the early twentieth century campaigns for sex education with chapters covering racial health, social and moral hygiene, masculinity and school sex hygiene.Read More