Childhood Sexuality, Normalization and the Social Hygiene Movement in the Anglophone West, 1900-1935

Autor:	R. Danielle Egan, Gail Hawkes
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Gerontology History education.field_of_study business.industry Childhood sexuality media_common.quotation_subject Population Medicine (miscellaneous) Gender studies Human sexuality Hygiene Heterosexuality Medicine Normalization (sociology) Narrative business education media_common
Zdroj:	Social History of Medicine. 23:56-78
ISSN:	1477-4666 0951-631X
DOI:	10.1093/shm/hkp062
Popis:	Analysing primary materials from the USA, England and Australia, this paper explores the discursive production of childhood sexuality within the social hygiene movement. Attempts to shape and tame 'the native capacities' of impoverished children into socially acceptable, monogamous heterosexuals functioned as a central tenet of sexual hygiene reform. Habituation provided the pedagogical entry point for hygiene's normalising project. The paper concludes that the body of the child functioned as the rationale through which the proliferation of the increasing management of both the individual and the population was rendered credible within sexual hygiene narratives.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::2e810916f42aac205ea5c2011d885d63 https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkp062 Zobrazit plný text záznamu