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Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain [Minkštas viršelis]

(Toronto Metropolitan University)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 306 pages, weight: 445 g, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Išleidimo metai: 10-Jul-2025
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1009578081
  • ISBN-13: 9781009578080
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Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian BritainDidesnis paveikslėlis
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 306 pages, weight: 445 g, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Išleidimo metai: 10-Jul-2025
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1009578081
  • ISBN-13: 9781009578080
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Raktažodžiai:
Bringing together perspectives from the histories of medicine, sexuality, and the book, Sarah Bull presents the first study of how medical publications on sexual matters were made, promoted, and sold in Victorian Britain. Drawing on pamphlets, manuals, textbooks, periodicals, and more, this innovative book illustrates the free and unruly circulation of sexual information through a rapidly expanding publishing industry. Bull demonstrates how the ease with which print could be copied and claimed, recast and repurposed, presented persistent challenges to those seeking to position themselves as authorities over sexual knowledge at this pivotal moment. Medical publishers, practitioners, and activists embraced allegations of obscenity and censorship to promote ideas, contest authority, and consolidate emergent collective identities. Layer by layer, their actions helped create and sustain one of the most potent myths ever made about the Victorians: their sexual ignorance.This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

This innovative work is the first study of how medical publications on sexual matters were made, promoted, and sold in Victorian Britain. Bull demonstrates how arguments about obscenity were embraced by publishers and practitioners, shaping persistent myths about Victorian sexuality. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Recenzijos

'This is revisionist history in the finest sense of the term. With far more depth than any previous study, it analyzes the business of publishing sexual literature in the nineteenth century. It challenges the myth of Victorian sexual ignorance, showing that erotic literature was far more available than we imagined. And it convincingly argues that Victorian censorship of sex was far from airtight.' Jonathan Rose, Drew University 'Bull skilfully connects Holywell Street pornographers, medical writers, and sex radicals in unexpected and wholly satisfying ways. She shows that Victorian medicine, sex, and obscenity were (dare I say it) often bedfellows.' Mary E. Fissell, Johns Hopkins University 'From the shady publishers of Holywell Street in the 1830s to the purveyors of 'semi-scientific' pornography in the 1890s, we are taken on a journey through the world of sexual and medical publishing, with surprising findings which radically recast our understandings of the obscenity debates in the nineteenth century.' Sally Shuttleworth, University of Oxford

Daugiau informacijos

The first full account of the practices and politics of selling medical books on sexual matters in Victorian Britain.
Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements;
List of Abbreviations; Introduction;
1. Holywell street medicine;
2.
Stereotyped knowledge;
3. Publishing for professional advantage;
4. Obscene
in a certain sense;
5. Dull instead of light;
6. Branding birth control;
7.
Be careful about the publisher; Conclusion: Victorian ignorance; Appendix A:
Holywell-street publisher's catalogues; Appendix B: Translations of
consulting surgeon's manuals; Bibliography; Index.
Sarah Bull is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University.