Sex and Control : : Venereal Disease, Colonial Physicians, and Indigenous Agency in German Colonialism, 1884-1914 / / Daniel J. Walther.
In responding to the perceived threat posed by venereal diseases in Germany’s colonies, doctors took a biopolitical approach that employed medical and bourgeois discourses of modernization, health, productivity, and morality. Their goal was to change the behavior of targeted groups, or at least to i...
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| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in German History ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I Male Sexuality and Prostitution in the Overseas Territories
- Chapter 1 DOCTORS, PROSTITUTION, AND VENEREAL DISEASE IN GERMANY
- Chapter 2 MALE COLONIAL SEXUALITY
- Chapter 3 PROSTITUTION IN GERMANY’S COLONIES
- PART II Venereal Disease in the Colonial Context
- Chapter 4 THE THREAT OF VENEREAL DISEASE
- Chapter 5 ASSESSING THE THREAT STATISTICALLY
- Chapter 6 RACIAL CATEGORIES, VENEREAL DISEASE, AND THE COLONIAL ORDER
- PART III Fighting Venereal Disease in the Colonies
- Chapter 7 PREVENTATIVE MEASURES
- Chapter 8 DISCIPLINING THE BODY
- Chapter 9 TREATING THE BODY
- Chapter 10 ASSESSING THE SURVEILLANCE
- Chapter 11 PERCEIVED ONGOING CHALLENGES
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX