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Community Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s
Av Ruth Beecher
Häftad, 2026
455 kr
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This open access book is an innovative history of community health practitioners’ responses to the seemingly intractable problem of men (and on rare occasions, women) sexually abusing children within the private family home. It is situated within a social history of the development of British …
Life among the Ruins
Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin
Av J. Evans
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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As home to 1920s excess and Hitler's Final Solution, Berlin's physical and symbolic landscape was an important staging ground for the highs and lows of modernity. In Cold War Berlin, social and political boundaries were porous, and the rubble gave refuge to a re-emerging gay and lesbian scene, …
Life among the Ruins
Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin
Av J. Evans
Häftad, 2011
624 kr
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As home to 1920s excess and Hitler's Final Solution, Berlin's physical and symbolic landscape was an important staging ground for the highs and lows of modernity. In Cold War Berlin, social and political boundaries were porous, and the rubble gave refuge to a re-emerging gay and lesbian scene, …
Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France
Bodies, Minds and Gender
Av C. Forth, E. Accampo
Inbunden, 2009
1243 kr
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The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender and sexuality. Drawing together prominent scholars in French gender history, this volume explores how historians have come to view this period in light of …
Queer Domesticities
Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London
Av M. Cook
Inbunden, 2014
522 kr
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Sissy home boys or domestic outlaws? Through a series of vivid case studies taken from across the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Matt Cook explores the emergence of these trenchant stereotypes and looks at how they play out in the home and family lives of queer men.
Men of War
Masculinity and the First World War in Britain
Inbunden, 2008
569 kr
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Exploring how understandings of masculinity were constructed by British First World war servicemen through examination of their personal narratives, including letters home from the front and wartime diaries. This book presents a nuanced investigation of masculine identity in Britain during and …
Negotiating Clerical Identities
Priests, Monks and Masculinity in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2010
569 kr
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Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society. The historians in this volume interrogate the meaning of masculine identity for the medieval clergy, by considering a wide range of sources, time periods and geographical …
Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens
Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960
Av J. Laite
Inbunden, 2011
1580 kr
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Between 1885 and 1960, laws and policies designed to repress prostitution dramatically shaped London's commercial sex industry. This book examines how laws translated into street-level reality, explores how women who sold sex experienced criminalization, and charts the complex dimensions of the …
Female Sexual Inversion
Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920
Inbunden, 2011
1130 kr
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An examination of how female same-sex desires were represented in a wide range of Italian and British medical writings, 1870-1920. It shows how the psychiatric category of sexual inversion was positioned alongside other medical ideas of same-sex desires, such as the virago, tribade-prostitute, …
Men and Manliness on the Frontier
Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Av R. Hogg
Inbunden, 2012
568 kr
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In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man –denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the colonial …
Surviving Hitler’s War
Family Life in Germany, 1939–48
Av H. Vaizey
Inbunden, 2010
568 kr
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Telling the stories of mothers, fathers and children in their own words, Vaizey recreates the experience of family life in Nazi Germany. From last letters of doomed soldiers at Stalingrad to diaries kept by women trying to keep their families alive in cities under attack, the book vividly describes …
Surviving Hitler’s War
Family Life in Germany, 1939–48
Av H. Vaizey
Häftad, 2010
624 kr
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Telling the stories of mothers, fathers and children in their own words, Vaizey recreates the experience of family life in Nazi Germany. From last letters of doomed soldiers at Stalingrad to diaries kept by women trying to keep their families alive in cities under attack, the book vividly describes …
What is Masculinity?
Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World
Inbunden, 2011
1130 kr
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Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how …
Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present
Av Kate Fisher, Sarah Toulalan
Inbunden, 2011
568 kr
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An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws attention to continuities in thinking about bodies and sex: concept may have changed, but hey …
Brutality and Desire
War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century
Av D. Herzog
Häftad, 2008
1242 kr
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Tracing sexual violence in Europe's twentieth century from the Armenian genocide to Auschwitz and Algeria to Bosnia, this pathbreaking volume expands military history to include the realm of sexuality. Examining both stories of consensual romance and of intimate brutality, it also contributes …
Sex, Honor and Citizenship in Early Third Republic France
Av A. Mansker
Inbunden, 2011
1130 kr
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A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system. Whether activists demanded admission to the popular ritual of the duel or publicly shamed men for their extramarital sexual behaviour, they appropriated extralegal honour …
Queer 1950s
Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years
Inbunden, 2012
1242 kr
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Leading sexuality scholars explore queer lives and cultures in the first full post-war decade through an array of sources and a range of perspectives. Drawing out the particularities of queer cultures from the Finland and New Zealand to the UK and the USA, this collection rethinks preconceptions of …
Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America
From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress
Inbunden, 2012
586 kr
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Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script …
Men of War
Masculinity and the First World War in Britain
Häftad, 2008
624 kr
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Exploring how understandings of masculinity were constructed by British First World war servicemen through examination of their personal narratives, including letters home from the front and wartime diaries. This book presents a nuanced investigation of masculine identity in Britain during and …
Frigidity
An Intellectual History
Inbunden, 2011
1130 kr
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This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars and enthusiasts alike. The authors take us through a journey across four centuries, showing how notions of sexual coldness and frigidity have been thought about by legal, medical, …
Daughters of the Anglican Clergy
Religion, Gender and Identity in Victorian England
Av M. Yamaguchi
Inbunden, 2014
1207 kr
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A Victorian parsonage was a 'religious family enterprise', a showcase of ruling ideas, the headquarters of parish charities and a point of connection for multilayered networks in and outside the parish. This book focuses on the lives of women brought up in this setting, as the Church of England …
Male Homosexuality in West Germany
Between Persecution and Freedom, 1945-69
Inbunden, 2012
569 kr
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Whisnant argues that the period after Nazism was more important for the history of homosexuality in Germany than is generally recognized. Gay scenes resurfaced; a more masculine view of homosexuality also became prominent. Above all, a public debate about homosexuality emerged, constituting a …
Rape in Wartime
Av R. Branche, F. Virgili
Inbunden, 2012
569 kr
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This collection offers a new reflection on rape in war time through 15 case studies, ranging from Greece to Nigeria. It questions the specificity of rape as a universal transgression, its place in memories of war, its legacies, including children born from rape, and the challenge of writing about …
Brutality and Desire
War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century
Av D. Herzog
Inbunden, 2008
1130 kr
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Tracing sexual violence in Europe's twentieth century from the Armenian genocide to Auschwitz and Algeria to Bosnia, this pathbreaking volume expands military history to include the realm of sexuality. Examining both stories of consensual romance and of intimate brutality, it also contributes …
Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages
Av C. Beattie, K. Fenton
Inbunden, 2010
569 kr
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This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnicity. It treats the period c.800-1500, with a particular focus on the era of the Gregorian reform movement, the First Crusade, and its linked attacks on …
Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Twentieth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2013
569 kr
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Charting the growing religious pluralism of British society, this book investigates the diverse formations of masculinity within and across specific religions, regions and immigrant communities. Contributors look beyond conventional realms of worship to examine men's diverse religious cultures in a …
What is Masculinity?
Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World
Häftad, 2011
1243 kr
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Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how …
Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1831–1918
Inbunden, 2017
1243 kr
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This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831, it explores the complex and dynamic shifts in the public …
Sexual Revolutions
Inbunden, 2014
1130 kr
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Sexual Revolutions explores the sexual revolution of the late twentieth century in several European countries and the USA by engaging with themes from sexual freedom and abortion to pornography and sexual variation. This work discusses the involvement of youth, feminism, left, liberalism, arts, …
Wolfenden's Witnesses
Homosexuality in Postwar Britain
Av Brian Lewis
Häftad, 2016
344 kr
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The Wolfenden Report of 1957 has long been recognized as a landmark in moves towards gay law reform. What is less well known is that the testimonials and written statements of the witnesses before the Wolfenden Committee provide by far the most complete and extensive array of perspectives we have …
