Bolshevik Sexual Forensics : Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and Courtroom, 1917-1939 /
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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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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