The Facts of Life

The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950

Bibliographic Data

ID5128944
AuthorsRoy Porter, Leslie Hall, Ann Robson
Year1995
Volume24
Issue1
Pages25-25
Publication date1995-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory Reviews of New Books (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0361-2759 • E-ISSN: 1930-8280
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03612759.1995.9949173
OpenAlexW2005869694
LanguageEN
Citations received55

Part 1 From the restoration to Victoria: introduction - histories of sex contexts - from the restoration to the accession of Queen Victoria medical folklore in high and low culture - Aristotle's Masterpiece. Appendices: editions of Aristotle's Masterpiece contents of Aristotle's Masterpiece contents of Version of Aristotle's Masterpiece contents of Version 3 of Aristotle's Masterpiece doctors and the medicalization of sex in the enlightenment masturbation in the enlightenment - knowledge and anxiety quackery and erotica. Part 2 The Victorians and beyond: introduction - towards Victoria the Victorian polyphony, 1850-85 from the primeval protozoa to the laboratory - the evolution of sexual science from 1889 to the 1930s the authority of individual experience and the opinions of experts - sex as a social science Good Sex - the new rhetoric of conjugal relations public faces in private places - sex, law, politics and pressure groups silent stares, smut, censorship and surgical stores - the makings of popular sexual knowledges

Gynecology · Sexual life · Sociology · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Medicine

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