The facts of life : the creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950
1995, 1st edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #389275
ISBN: 0300062214
Physical description: xii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-397) and index. 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. Subjects: Sexology Great Britain History; Sex instruction literature Great Britain History; Sex instruction literature Great Britain History; Sex Education history; Sex Manuals; Sex instruction literature; Sexology; Sex history; Sex Education history; Sexology History; Sex; Sexuality; Social History.
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