Voices From the Archive
Lust, Legislation, Lunacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2392430 |
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| Authors | Elga Skrastins (University of Tasmania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 350-354 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13607804241287119 |
| OpenAlex | W4412131299 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
The podcast presents social and situational evidence indicating how the promiscuity of young working-class girls emerged as a mental disorder in Tasmania. The playscript is a creative composite of verbatim data retrieved from postcolonial archival, legislative, welfare, medical, and legal records that provide graphic and disturbing revelations about the consequences of state policies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, on the lives of the young female wards. The podcast acts as testimony from the past that parallels the present where young women are appraised, criticized, and condemned by outdated legislation that has a direct impact on contemporary judicial decisions
Legislation · Lust · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Psychology · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society
| Highly cited | No |
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