Sexual Cultures in Europe, Volume II; Themes in Sexuality

by Edited by Franz X. Eder, Lesley Hall, and Gert Hekma

• ISBN13: 9780719053214
• ISBN10: 0719053218
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-08-21
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This exciting and innovative new volume overviews the key themes in the history of European sexual cultures, including religion and sexuality, sexual education, sexual diseases, same-sex relationships, pornography, sexual perversions, falling fertilities and abortion. These themes are explored through a range of case studies drawn from across Europe.

Author Biography

Franz X. Eder is Lecturer at the Institut fnr Wirtschafts und Sozialgeschichte at the University of Vienna.

Lesley Hall is Lecturer at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London.

Gert Hekma is Lecturer at the Sociologisch Institut in Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction	1	(8)
DANGEROUS SEXUALITIES AND THEIR CONTROL
Sex education in Germany from the eighteenth to the twentieth century	9	(25)
Lutz D.H. Sauerteig
The rise and fall of European syphilisation: the debates on human experimentation and vaccination of syphilis, c. 1845--70	34	(24)
Bertrand Taithe
The culture of compulsion: veneral disease, sexuality and the state in twentieth-century Scotland	58	(21)
Roger Davidson
STIGMATISED SEXUALITIES
Same-sex relations among men in Europe, 1700--1990	79	(25)
Gert Hekma
Pornography in Western European culture	104	(17)
Dorelies Kraakman
National responses to sexual perversions: the case of transvestism	121	(18)
Angus McLaren
Keeping their fingers on the pulse: lesbian doctors in Britain, 1890--1950	139	(20)
Emily Hamer
SEX AND REPRODUCTION
Falling fertilities and changing sexualities in Europe since c. 1850: a comparative survey of national demographic patterns	159	(36)
Simon Szreter
Cultures of abortion in The Hague in the early twentieth century	195	(18)
Willem de Blecourt
`Didn't stop to think, I just didn't want another one': the culture of abortion in interwar South Wales	213	(20)
Kate Fisher
French Catholics between abstinence and `appeasement of lust', 1930--50	233	(22)
Anne-Marie Sohn
Index	255