Sex as Symbol in Victorian Purity: An Ethnohistorical Analysis of Jacksonian America

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll

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“…Within the Gentile world, masturbation symbolized the dangers of a new, unregulated generation. Sex education, designed by professionals under parents’ approval, aimed at symbolically restoring the idealized past of the close‐knit community (Smith‐Rosenberg 1978; Trudell 1985). Similarly, sex education in the Jewish community that dealt directly with masturbation aimed at symbolically restoring vulnerable children's inner control and hence ensuring the future of the community.…”

Section: The Discovery Of Masturbation In the Jewish Community In Cenmentioning

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The Sexual Body of the Young Jew as an Arena of Ideological Struggle, 1821–1948

Ajzenstadt

Cavaglion

2002

Symbolic Interaction

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This article analyzes professional discourse on masturbation to illustrate how child sexuality serves as a site for symbolic ideological struggles. Sex instruction manuals written in central Europe in the nineteenth century Palestine and Israel in the twentieth century are the basis for broader discussions on religious and scienti c discourse on child and adolescent sexuality within the Jewish communities. By tracing the development of new forms of expert knowledge, we show how expert discourse on masturbation gradually transformed it from a symbolic moral evil into a medical disease and a psychological problem, before declaring it a legitimized behavior.

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Section: The Discovery Of Masturbation In the Jewish Community In Cenmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Sexual Body of the Young Jew as an Arena of Ideological Struggle, 1821–1948

Ajzenstadt

Cavaglion

2002

Symbolic Interaction

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“…They believe that during those historical periods when ideas about family change dramatically, there will be large shifts in behavior. For these historians, such shifts can be timed to within a decade or two (see also Smith-Rosenberg, 1978b). Norton's exhaustively documented work, based primarily on letters, diaries, and memoirs of women living in the British North American colonies in the revolutionary period, focuses on the political and ideological currents of the period as the prime factor accounting for changes in the lives of American women and their families.…”

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“…American historians interested in the development of mass education, notably Katz and Davey (1978), Kaestle and Vinovskis (1978a;1978b), Bodnar (1976b), Katz and Stern (1981), Modell (1980), andCohen (1982) have used household level data to understand how schooling patterns varied. Important factors were the economic, ethnic, and demographic characteristics of families, the community and labor market, and parents' attitudes about education.…”

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“…Cohen (1977;1982) has also examined how enforcement of school attendance and child labor laws has varied with large cyclical economic swings, such as the Great Depression. Some studies, such as those of Kaestle and Vinovskis (1978a;1978b), are less ready to accept political explanations. These studies rely either on attitudinal explanations or they simply point out connections, providing no sustained explanation.…”

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Does the Family Have a History?

Tilly

Cohen

1982

Social Science History

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Whence and whither family history? In his bibliographic and programmatic essay, Hobsbawm (1971) did not mention family history as a subfield of what was then the relatively “new” social history. The closest he came was “demography and kinship.” In 1980, by which time social history was definitely mature, and according to some critics, even in decline, the proceedings of a conference on history in the 1980s included a 37-page essay by Stone (1981b; see also Stone, 1981a, 1978) on family history. Several bellwethers of the change may be noted in passing. One year after the 1968 conference for which Hobsbawm's comments were originally prepared, the Cambridge Group for the History of Population held a meeting whose subject—the comparative history of householdand family—went beyond strictly demographic history. In 1972, a family history newsletter was launched by Professor Tamara Hareven, in cooperation with the Newberry Library in Chicago; a special issue of theJournal of Interdisciplinary Historyon “The History of the Family” appeared in 1971; a special issue ofAnnales: Economies, Societes et Civilisationsdevoted to “Famille et Societé”was published in 1972. By the time theJournal of Family History, edited by Hareven, began publication in 1976, two more special issues on family history of theJournal of Interdisciplinary Historywere required reading for those calling themselves social historians.

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“…For example pamphlets have been utilised to analyse: witchcraft [7], menopause [8], community welfare [9], fear appeals in health campaigns [10], smoking [11], and Victorian sexual mores [12].A popular methodology for analysing modern pamphlets, especially in relation to public health is content analysis of publications, for example, on issues such as AIDS [13], breast screening [14], cervical cancer [15], cystic fibrosis [16], and other diseases.…”

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Insights into Colonial Australian Life: Early Australian Pamphlets as Social History

Archee

2012

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Abstract:Pamphlets were an important medium of public debate in the 19th century, embracing key religious, political, social, and technological issues of the day, and providing instruction on a range of skills and tasks. They remain a valuable primary resource of relevance to a broad range of disciplines. However, pamphlets are under-utilized within research and teaching because they are typically difficult to locate and access. They are hard to find in the few research libraries in which they are housed, and such libraries often bundle these small publications together in large single volumes making referencing a daunting task. This paper analyses a selection of digital photographs from the 14,000 Australian colonial pamphlets held at the State Library of NSW, Sydney, Australia. The selected photographs not only form an online archive of the earliest examples of Australian technical and instructional writing, but also provide insight into the everyday life, interests, and activities of people around the nation. Through illustration and analysis this paper will provide fresh insight into Australian colonial life and early instructional writing.

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Sex as Symbol in Victorian Purity: An Ethnohistorical Analysis of Jacksonian America

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The Sexual Body of the Young Jew as an Arena of Ideological Struggle, 1821–1948

The Sexual Body of the Young Jew as an Arena of Ideological Struggle, 1821–1948

Does the Family Have a History?

Insights into Colonial Australian Life: Early Australian Pamphlets as Social History

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