A surgical temptation the demonization of the foreskin and the rise of circumcision in Britain
Part I. The European background : Introduction: the willful organ meets fantasy surgery -- The best of your property: what a boy once knew about sex -- Pathologizing male sexuality: the masturbation phobia and the invention of spermatorrhea -- Part II. Medico-moral politics in Victorian Britain : Th...
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Chicago, Ill. u.a.
The University of Chicago Press
2005
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Part I. The European background : Introduction: the willful organ meets fantasy surgery -- The best of your property: what a boy once knew about sex -- Pathologizing male sexuality: the masturbation phobia and the invention of spermatorrhea -- Part II. Medico-moral politics in Victorian Britain : The shadow of Parson Malthus: sexual morals from the Georgians to the Edwardians -- The priests of the body: doctors and disease in an antisensual age -- A source of serious mischief: William Acton and the case against the foreskin -- A compromising and unpublishable mutilation: clitoridectomy and circumcision in the 1860s -- Part III. The demonization of the foreskin : One of the most grievous diseases of humanity: spermatorrhea in British medical practice -- The besetting trial of our boys: finding a cure for masturbation -- This unyielding tube of flesh: the rise and fall of congenital phimosis -- Prevention is better than cure: sanitizing the modern body -- The purity movement and the social evil: circumcision as a preventive of syphilis -- The stigmata of a gentleman: circumcision and British society -- Conclusion: the end of the culture of abstinence Introduction: the willful organ meets fantasy surgery -- The best of your property : what a boy once knew about sex -- Pathologizing male sexuality : the masturbation phobia and the invention of spermatorrhea -- The shadow of Parson Malthus : sexual morals from the Georgians to the Edwardians -- The priests of the body : doctors and disease in an antisensual age -- A source of serious mischief : William Acton and the case against the foreskin -- A compromising and unpublishable mutilation : clitoridectomy and circumcision in the 1860s -- One of the most grievous diseases of humanity : spermatorrhea in British medical practice -- The besetting trial of our boys : finding a cure for masturbation -- This unyielding tube of flesh : the rise and fall of congenital phimosis -- Prevention is better than cure : sanitizing the modern body -- The purity movement and the social evil : circumcision as a preventive of syphilis -- The stigmata of a gentleman : circumcision and British society -- Conclusion: the end of the culture of abstinence |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-364) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 374 S. 23,5 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780226136455 978-0-226-13645-5 0226136450 0-226-13645-0 |