Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinating insight into the relationship between the law, sex, and society in modern Scotland.
Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinating insight into the relationship between the law, sex, and society in modern Scotland.
Roger Davidson is Emeritus Professor of Social History at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on the history of medical and governmental responses to sexual issues. He is the author of Dangerous Liaisons: A Social History of Venereal Disease in Twentieth-Century Scotland (2000) and co-author of The Sexual State: Sexuality and Scottish Governance 1950-80 (2012).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. 'Venereal Trouble': The Case of 'Professor' Abraham Eastburn 3. 'This Pernicious Delusion': Law, Medicine and Child Sexual Abuse 4. 'Unnatural Carnal Connection': Bestiality and the Law in Early-Twentieth-Century Scotland 5. 'There's the Man who Shifts the Babies': Abortion in the Scottish High Court, 1900-30 6. 'An Open and Notorious House of Lewdness': Dora Noyce and the Danube Street Brothel 7. Cure or Confinement?: Law, Medicine and the Treatment of Homosexual Offenders in Scotland, 1950-80 8. 'Liable or Likely to Deprave and Corrupt the Morals of the Lieges': Sex Shops and Moral Panic in Late-Twentieth-Century Scotland 9. 'Culpable and Reckless Conduct': Criminalising the Transmission of HIV in Scotland, 1983-2014 10. Conclusion Sources and Select Bibliography; Index
List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. 'Venereal Trouble': The Case of 'Professor' Abraham Eastburn 3. 'This Pernicious Delusion': Law, Medicine and Child Sexual Abuse 4. 'Unnatural Carnal Connection': Bestiality and the Law in Early-Twentieth-Century Scotland 5. 'There's the Man who Shifts the Babies': Abortion in the Scottish High Court, 1900-30 6. 'An Open and Notorious House of Lewdness': Dora Noyce and the Danube Street Brothel 7. Cure or Confinement?: Law, Medicine and the Treatment of Homosexual Offenders in Scotland, 1950-80 8. 'Liable or Likely to Deprave and Corrupt the Morals of the Lieges': Sex Shops and Moral Panic in Late-Twentieth-Century Scotland 9. 'Culpable and Reckless Conduct': Criminalising the Transmission of HIV in Scotland, 1983-2014 10. Conclusion Sources and Select Bibliography; Index
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