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Childhood Sexuality, Normalization and the Social Hygiene Movement in the Anglophone West, 1900–1935.
- Source :
- Social History of Medicine; Apr2010, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p56-78, 23p, 7 Black and White Photographs
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Analysing primary materials from the USA, England and Australia, this paper explores the discursive production of childhood sexuality within the social hygiene movement. Attempts to shape and tame ‘the native capacities’ of impoverished children into socially acceptable, monogamous heterosexuals functioned as a central tenet of sexual hygiene reform. Habituation provided the pedagogical entry point for hygiene's normalising project. The paper concludes that the body of the child functioned as the rationale through which the proliferation of the increasing management of both the individual and the population was rendered credible within sexual hygiene narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- CHILDREN & sex
SOCIAL norms
SEXUAL health
CHILDREN'S sexual behavior
GENDER role
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0951631X
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Social History of Medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 52860097
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkp062