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 s...
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DeKalb :
Northern Illinois University Press,
2009.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.