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24 produkter
Trials of Masculinity – Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870–1930
Häftad, 1999
333 kr
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In this history of manhood and masculinity, the author argues that modern formulations of masculinity, despite any sense of naturalness and constancy, are in fact, idealized cultural products of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He examines the process of social construction whereby this …
Trials of Masculinity
Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930
E-bok, 2008
722 kr
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In this path-breaking history of manhood and masculinity, Angus McLaren examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century western society created what we now take to be the traditional model of the heterosexual male.
Impotence
A Cultural History
E-bok, 2008
625 kr
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As anyone who has watched television in recent years can attest, we live in the age of Viagra. From Bob Dole to Mike Ditka to late-night comedians, our culture has been engaged in one long, frank, and very public talk about impotence—and our newfound pharmaceutical solutions. But as Angus McLaren …
Prescription for Murder
The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream
Häftad, 1995
236 kr
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Between 1877 and 1892, Dr Thomas Neill Cream murdered seven women, all prostitutes or patients seeking abortions, in England and North America. Using press reports and police dossiers, this account of the killings investigates the links between crime and respectability to reveal a remarkable range …
Reproduction by Design
Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain
Inbunden, 2012
659 kr
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Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a battleground for those debating the merits of …
Reproduction by Design
Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain
E-bok, 2012
1444 kr
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Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a battleground for those debating the merits of …
Reproductive Rituals
The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2020
1881 kr
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Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. The book discusses both through anthropological research and reviews of contemporary literature that conscious family limitation was practised before the nineteenth century. The volume …
Reproductive Rituals
The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2021
562 kr
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Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. The book discusses both through anthropological research and reviews of contemporary literature that conscious family limitation was practised before the nineteenth century. The volume …
History of Contraception
From Antiquity to the Present Day
Häftad, 1992
597 kr
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This bookm the first history of contraception for almost fifty years, provides a scholarly and highly readable account of procreation and attempts to prevent it from ancient Greece to the late twentieth century. The story, as the author shows, is not one of unalleviated progress, and anything but a …
Twentieth-Century Sexuality
A History
Häftad, 1999
669 kr
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This book provides a fascinating history of sexuality in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Angus McLaren draws upon legal, medical and literary sources to demonstrate how modern sexuality has been shaped by race, class, gender and generational preoccupations.
Sexual Blackmail
A Modern History
Inbunden, 2002
429 kr
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Sexual blackmail first reached public notice in the late eighteenth century when laws against sodomy were exploited by the unscrupulous to extort money from those they could entrap. Angus McLaren chronicles this parasitic crime, tracing its expansion in England and the United States through the …
Reproductive Rituals
The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century
E-bok, 2020
660 kr
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Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. The book discusses both through anthropological research and reviews of contemporary literature that conscious family limitation was practised before the nineteenth century. The volume …
Reproductive Rituals
The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century
E-bok, 2020
646 kr
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Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. The book discusses both through anthropological research and reviews of contemporary literature that conscious family limitation was practised before the nineteenth century. The volume …
Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England
E-bok, 2022
593 kr
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The decline of the British birth rate was arguably the most important social change to occur in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but historians have shown remarkably little interest in the phenomenon. Most of the work done on the question has been by sociologists and reflects their …
Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England
E-bok, 2022
607 kr
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The decline of the British birth rate was arguably the most important social change to occur in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but historians have shown remarkably little interest in the phenomenon. Most of the work done on the question has been by sociologists and reflects their …
Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2022
1881 kr
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The decline of the British birth rate was arguably the most important social change to occur in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but historians have shown remarkably little interest in the phenomenon. Most of the work done on the question has been by sociologists and reflects their …
Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England
Häftad, 2024
517 kr
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The decline of the British birth rate was arguably the most important social change to occur in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but historians have shown remarkably little interest in the phenomenon. Most of the work done on the question has been by sociologists and reflects their …
Playboys and Mayfair Men
Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London
Inbunden, 2017
351 kr
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In December 1937, four respectable young men in their twenties, all products of elite English public schools, conspired to lure to the luxurious Hyde Park Hotel a representative of Cartier, the renowned jewelry firm. There, the "Mayfair men" brutally bludgeoned diamond salesman Etienne Bellenger …
Our Own Master Race
Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945
E-bok, 1990
453 kr
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Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many Canadians …
Our Own Master Race
Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945
E-bok, 1990
444 kr
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Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many Canadians …
Our Own Master Race
Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945
Häftad, 1990
347 kr
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Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many Canadians …
Sexuality and Social Order: The Debate Over the Fertility of Women and Workers in France, 1770-1920
Inbunden, 1899
709 kr
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Sexuality and Social Order: The Debate Over the Fertility of Women and Workers in France, 1770-1920
Häftad
510 kr
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Impotence
A Cultural History
Inbunden, 2007
289 kr
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As anyone who has watched television in recent years can attest, we live in the age of Viagra. From Bob Dole to Mike Ditka to late-night comedians, our culture has been engaged in one long, frank, and very public talk about impotence - and our newfound pharmaceutical solutions. But as Angus McLaren …
