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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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Autor principal: Healey, Dan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022]
Colección:NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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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