Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health

by HOUSTON and Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston

Book Overview

Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse, and subject of debate within Irish literary culture from 1880 to 1960. Combining perspectives from Irish Studies, Modernist Studies, and the Social History of Medicine, it traces the ways in which authors, politicians, and activists in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland harnessed debates over sexual hygiene, venereal disease,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192889494
• ISBN13: 9780192889492
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.7" x 8.1"