HIST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Purity Movement, John Sparrow David Thompson, Soulmate
12 Mar 2014
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Swans, elephants, and other problems in the history of heterosexuality: from gay history to the history of heterosexuality, foucault"s malthusian couple . 1892 criminal code: sexual politics, the social purity movement, the birth control movement, the eugenics movement. *historical document format?/ primary historical document/ theory to assess it/i. Queen"s: have you found your soulmate: phenomenon, queen"s student"s marry each other, when you think about soulmate" this is the best match i could find. Moving sexual acts into sexual identities: momentous historical process by which it tells us something intrinsic about who we are, not just one truth; in western culture it is the truth about who we are. Sexual meanings: marriage in crisis: divorce and the married state 1890s , a periodic panics over marriage and family. Why then: relate to the widespread perception that marriage and morality were under threat, thought that marriage and morality were under so much stress.
