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Sexual Morality (sexual + morality)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences80%

Selected Abstracts

Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome,by Rebecca Langlands

GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 1 2010
CRESSIDA RYAN
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Discourses of Sexual Morality in Sex and the City and Queer as Folk

THE JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE, Issue 3 2007
JANET M. CRAMER
First page of article [source]

Goethe, His Duke and Infanticide: New Documents and Reflections on a Controversial Execution

GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS, Issue 1 2008
W. Daniel Wilson
ABSTRACT It has been known since the 1930s that in 1783 Goethe cast his vote as a member of the governing Privy Council (,Geheimes Consilium') of Saxe-Weimar to retain the death penalty for infanticide. This decision, which followed a request by Duke Carl August for his councillors' advice on the matter, has moved to the centre of controversies over the political Goethe, since it meant that Johanna Höhn of Tannroda, who had been convicted of infanticide, was subsequently executed. The issue draws its special poignancy from Goethe's empathetic portrayal of the infanticide committed by Margarete in the earliest known version of Faust. The simultaneous publication in 2004 of two editions documenting the wider issue of infanticide and other crimes relating to sexual morality in Saxe-Weimar has re-ignited the controversy. The present article reexamines the issues, presenting new evidence that establishes the discourse on the question of the death penalty for infanticide in books that Duke Carl August and Goethe purchased, and presents the script of the public trial re-enactment (,Halsgericht') on the market square in Weimar directly preceding the execution. It concludes that this discourse ran heavily against the death penalty, and it counters attempts in recent scholarship to draw attention away from the Höhn execution. [source]

Sex in Health Education: Official Guidance for Schools in England, 1928,1977

JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY, Issue 2-3 2004
Jane Pilcher
The article begins with an account of the origins of sex education in schools, and of why, in the early twentieth century, its inclusion in the health education curriculum was problematical. In the main section, the article examines the content of consecutive editions of the government published "handbooks of health education", and of an important supplementary guidance pamphlet, published during the Second World War. It traces the gradual shifts over time in official discourses of "sex education", and in the sets of understandings about children, sexuality and the role of parents, for example, which underlay them. The shifts in official guidance discourses on sex within the health education curriculum of schools are explained through locating changes in their broader social and political contexts, especially the impact of the Second World War on sexual morality and the post-war emergence of youth as a significant social grouping. The article concludes by evaluating the handbooks as a source for the history of school-based health and sex education and by drawing attention to the wider historical and sociological significance of official discourses on sex education. [source]

A Question of Morality: Artists' Values and Public Funding for the Arts

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW, Issue 1 2005
Gregory B. Lewis
In 1989, the combination of art, religion, homosexuality, ana1 public dollars set off an explosive two-year battle and a decade of skirmishes over funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. To promote artistic freedom and to avoid political controversy, federal arts policy delegates specific funding decisions to private donors and arts professionals. In an era of morality politics,hot-button issues driven by deeply held beliefs rather than by expertise,that strategy no longer works. Artists, donors, and arts audiences diverge widely from the rest of the American public in their attitudes toward religion, sexual morality, and civil liberties, as General Social Survey data show. Delegating funding decisions to them has naturally led to some subsidies of art offensive to important segments of the population. [source]