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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Frances Lee BernsteinPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9780875803715ISBN 10: 0875803717 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 11 April 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1: Disciplining the Sex Question in Revolutionary Russia 2: Making Sex 3: ""Nervous People"" 4: Envisioning Health 5: Conserving Soviet Power 6: Doctors without Boudoirs Conclusion Abbreviations List Notes Bibliography Index"ReviewsA valuable contribution ... will be of interest to a number of audiences--from historians of gender and the family to those that specialize in the history of medicine. -- Canadian Journal of History Beautiful and thickly descriptive. The source base is impressive. -- The Russian Review Richly documented and well-researched. Essential reading ... provides many important and original insights into Soviet reformers' ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family in the 1920s and about their attempts to discipline the Soviet public. -- Slavic Review Frances Bernstein, in her excellent book on the sex question in the early decades of the Soviet experiment, makes a convincing case for the centrality of sexual enlightenment--in both its discursive and its institutional manifestations--in the project of creating a Communist society populated with newly transformed Soviet citizens. Her discussion of the relationship among state goals, the emergence of new medical institutions, and the representations, whether textual or visual, of Soviet sexual enlightenment will engross anyone who is interested in how the state and its institutions regulated behavior in the process of creating the new Soviet man, woman, and child. --Journal of the History of Sexuality <p> A valuable contribution ... will be of interest to a number of audiences--from historians of gender and the family to those that specialize in the history of medicine. -- Canadian Journal of History <p> Beautiful and thickly descriptive. The source base is impressive. -- The Russian Review <p> Richly documented and well-researched. Essential reading ... provides many important and original insights into Soviet reformers' ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family in the 1920s and about their attempts to discipline the Soviet public. -- Slavic Review<br><br><br> Frances Bernstein, in her excellent book on the sex question in the early decades of the Soviet experiment, makes a convincing case for the centrality of sexual enlightenment--in both its discursive and its institutional manifestations--in the project of creating a Communist society populated with newly transformed Soviet citizens. Her discussion of the relationship among state goals, the emergence of new medical institutions, and the representations, whether textual or visual, of Soviet sexual enlightenment will engross anyone who is interested in how the state and its institutions regulated behavior in the process of creating the new Soviet man, woman, and child. --Journal of the History of Sexuality <p> A valuable contribution ... will be of interest to a number of audiences--from historians of gender and the family to those that specialize in the history of medicine. -- Canadian Journal of History <p> Beautiful and thickly descriptive. The source base is impressive. -- The Russian Review <p> Richly documented and well-researched. Essential reading ... provides many important and original insights into Soviet reformers' ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family in the 1920s and about their attempts to discipline the Soviet public. -- Slavic Review Author InformationFrances Lee Bernstein is Associate Professor of History at Drew University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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