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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 solution...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Healey, Dan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: Bolshevik medicine and Russia's "sexual revolution"
  • Soviet doctors and Bolshevik justice
  • Sexual maturity and the threshold of sexual citizenship
  • Soviet medicine and rape as a crime of everyday life
  • Doctors of the mind and sex crime
  • Bodies in search of a sex
  • Conclusion: Reflections on the fate of a sexual revolution.