Bolshevik Sexual Forensics : : Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and Courtroom, 1917–1939 / / Dan Healey.
In an effort to modernize criminal and civil investigations, early Bolsheviks gave forensic doctors—most of whom had been trained under the tsarist regime—new authority over issues of sexuality. Revolutionaries believed that forensic medicine could provide scientific and objective solutions to sexua...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 7 b&w halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION—Bolshevik Medicine and Russia’s “Sexual Revolution”
- 1—Soviet Doctors and Bolshevik Justice
- 2—Sexual Maturity and the Threshold of Sexual Citizenship
- 3—Soviet Medicine and Rape as a Crime of Everyday Life
- 4—Doctors of the Mind and Sex Crime
- 5—Bodies in Search of a Sex
- CONCLUSION —Reflections on the Fate of a Sexual Revolution
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index