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OverviewIn an effort to modernize criminal and civil investigations, early Bolsheviks gave forensic doctors-most of whom had been trained under the tsarist regime-new authority over issues of sexuality. Revolutionaries believed that forensic medicine could provide scientific and objective solutions to sexual disorder in the new society. Bolshevik Sexual Forensics explores the institutional history of Russian and Soviet forensic medicine and examines the effects of its authority when confronting sexual disorder. Healey compares sex crime investigations from Petrograd and Sverdlovsk in the 1920s to the numerous publications by forensic doctors and psychiatrists of the prerevolutionary and early Soviet periods to illustrate the role that these specialists played. In addition, Healey presents a fascinating look at how doctors diagnosed and treated hermaphroditism, showing how Soviet physicians revolutionized the standard scientific view in these cases by taking into account individual desire. This study sheds light on unexplored radical and reactionary forces that shaped the Bolshevik ""sexual revolution"" as lawmakers defined new ways of seeing sexual crime and disorder. Forensic doctors struggled to interpret the replacement of the age of consent with a standard of ""sexual maturity,"" a designation that made female sexuality a collective ""resource,"" not part of an individual's personality. ""Innocence,"" ""experience,"" and virginity played a major role in the expertise doctors furnished in rape and abuse trials. Psychiatrists recoiled from the language of sexual psychology in their investigations of sex criminals. Yet in the clinic, Soviet physicians probed the desires of the two-sexed citizen, whose psychology served as the basis for a distinctly modern approach to the ""erasure"" of the hermaphrodite. Healey concludes that the vision of men and women as equals after a ""sexual revolution"" was undermined from the outset of the Soviet experiment. Law and medicine failed to protect women and girls from violence, and Soviet medicine's physiological and biological model of sexual citizenship erased the vision of sexual self-expression, especially for women. This groundbreaking study will appeal to Soviet historians and those interested in gender studies, sexuality, medicine, and forensics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dan HealeyPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9780875804057ISBN 10: 0875804055 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 28 June 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of Contents"Table of Contents Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Bolshevik Medicine and Russia's ""Sexual Revolution"" Chapter 1: Soviet Doctors and Bolshevik Justice Chapter 2: Sexual Maturity and the Threshold of Sexual Citizenship Chapter 3: Soviet Medicine and Rape as a Crime of Everyday Life Chapter 4: Doctors of the Mind and Sex Crime Chapter 5: Bodies in Search of a Sex Conclusion: Reflections on the Fate of a Sexual Revolution Notes Bibliography Index"ReviewsA meticulously researched, well-written and consistently interesting work... virtually the first to engage in 'grass roots' research, looking at unpublished court documents to determine how notions of sexuality were applied in courts dealing with sex crimes. - Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley A meticulously researched, well-written and consistently interesting work ... virtually the first to engage in \u2018grass roots' research, looking at unpublished court documents to determine how notions of sexuality were applied in courts dealing with sex crimes. -Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley Healey effectively highlights the study of the forensic and psychiatric professions and their involvement in cases of sexual crime and deviance. -Sharon A. Kowalsky, Texas A&M University-Commerce Author InformationDan Healey is a reader in the Department of History, Swansea University (Wales, UK). He is the author of Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia and articles on the history of gender, sexuality, and medicine in Russia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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