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A surgical temptation : the demonization of the foreskin and the rise of circumcision in Britain
- Author
- Darby, Robert (Robert J. L.)
- Title
- A surgical temptation : the demonization of the foreskin and the rise of circumcision in Britain / Robert Darby.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
- Description
- xi, 374 p. ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/uchi051/2004027996.html <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004027996.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0617/2004027996-d.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-364) and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction: the willful organ meets fantasy surgery
- The best of your property : what a boy once knew about sex
- Pathologizing male sexuality : the masturbation phobia and the invention of spermatorrhea
- The shadow of Parson Malthus : sexual morals from the Georgians to the Edwardians
- The priests of the body : doctors and disease in an antisensual age
- A source of serious mischief : William Acton and the case against the foreskin
- A compromising and unpublishable mutilation : clitoridectomy and circumcision in the 1860s
- One of the most grievous diseases of humanity : spermatorrhea in British medical practice
- The besetting trial of our boys : finding a cure for masturbation
- This unyielding tube of flesh : the rise and fall of congenital phimosis
- Prevention is better than cure : sanitizing the modern body
- The purity movement and the social evil : circumcision as a preventive of syphilis
- The stigmata of a gentleman : circumcision and British society
- Conclusion: the end of the culture of abstinence.
- Kinsey subjects
- Circumcision history. Circumcision--Great Britain. Masturbation. Attitudes on masturbation. Sex attitudes--Great Britain.
- ISBN
- 0226136450 (alk. paper)