Sarah Bull

Selling Sexual Knowledge

Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009578080
• ISBN-10: 1009578081
• Artikelnr.: 72655942

Autorenporträt

Sarah Bull is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Inhaltsangabe

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.