ABSTRACT

Dangerous Sexualities takes a look at how our ideas of health and disease are linked to moral and immoral notions of sex. Beginning in the 1830s, Frank Mort relates his social historical narratives to the sexual choices and possibilities facing us now.
This long-awaited second edition has been thoroughly updated to include new discussions of eugenics, race hygiene and social imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With a new and extended bibliography, introduction and illustrations, this second edition brings a classic into the 21st Century.

chapter |8 pages

INTRODUCTION Narratives of sex

chapter |44 pages

Part Two THE SANITARY PRINCIPLE IN DOMINANCE

Medical hegemony and feminist response 1860–1880

chapter |40 pages

Part Three FROM STATE MEDICINE TO CRIMINAL LAW

Purity, feminism and the state 1880–1914

chapter |46 pages

Part Four FROM PURITY TO SOCIAL HYGIENE

Early twentieth-century campaigns for sex education

chapter |8 pages

EPILOGUE

chapter |36 pages

NOTES

chapter |22 pages

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

chapter |11 pages

ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY