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The Catholic Church and Modern Sexual Knowledge, 1850-1950: Genders and Sexualities in History

Autor Lucia Pozzi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 sep 2022
This book is the first to present a comprehensive historical picture of the modern Catholic concern with the body and sexuality. The Catholic church is commonly believed to have always opposed birth control and abortion throughout the centuries. Yet the Catholic encounter with modern sexuality has a more complex and interesting history. What was the meaning of sexual purity? Why did eugenics matter to Catholicism? How did the Society of Jesus interpret the idea of overpopulation? Why did Pius XI decide to issue the notorious encyclical Casti connubii on Christian marriage – the first modern papal pronouncement on birth control, abortion, and eugenics? In answering these questions, Lucia Pozzi uncovers new archival and unpublished records to dig into Catholic responses to modern sexual knowledge, showing the Catholic church at times resisting, but also often welcoming, scientific modernity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030797881
ISBN-10: 3030797880
Pagini: 278
Ilustrații: XIII, 278 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Genders and Sexualities in History

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction.-  2. Onanism.- 3. The Holy Office Dealing with Abortion and Contraception.- 4. Youth and Sexual Purity.- 5. Jesuits Writing on Population Theories and on Eugenics.- 6. Nudism.- 7. Scientific Eroticism.- 8. The First Modern Vatican Public Talk about Sexuality.- 9. Conclusion.

Recenzii

“As an intellectual history, The Catholic Church and Modern Sexual Knowledge, 1850–1950 connects in a nuanced and richly evidenced way the history of sexuality with the history of religion. This monograph illustrates the intellectual tug of war from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentiethcentury between the Catholic Church’s ideas of sexual morality and the developing medical ideas about physiology and sexuality. … Each chapter is written as a stand-alone chapter, with endnotes and a short bibliography.” (Carmen M. Mangion, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 32 (2), May, 2023)

Notă biografică

Lucia Pozzi is an intellectual historian in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of journal articles and book chapters on the history of modern Catholic discourses on sexuality and eugenics.

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“This book offers an engaging and well-researched study of the relationship between Catholicism and sexual science; it will make a useful contribution to the histories of sexuality and religion, helping these two, often disparate, fields speak to each other in new ways.” -  David Geiringer, Associate Lecturer and Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London, UK   
"Too often historians of sexuality, especially in the English-speaking world, work with stylised views of the Catholic Church’s regulation of women’s sexuality. By reading Lucia Pozzi’s book, they can gain a more nuanced view based on fine-grained archival research."
- Peter Cryle, Emeritus Professor, University of Queensland
This book is the first to present a comprehensive historical picture of the modern Catholic concern with the body and sexuality. The Catholic church is commonly believed to have always opposed birth control and abortion throughout the centuries. Yet the Catholic encounter with modern sexuality has a more complex and interesting history. What was the meaning of sexual purity? Why did eugenics matter to Catholicism? How did the Society of Jesus interpret the idea of overpopulation? Why did Pius XI decide to issue the notorious encyclical Casti connubii on Christian marriage – the first modern papal pronouncement on birth control, abortion, and eugenics? In answering these questions, Lucia Pozzi uncovers new archival and unpublished records to dig into Catholic responses to modern sexual knowledge, showing the Catholic church at times resisting, but also often welcoming, scientific modernity.

Lucia Pozzi is an intellectual historian in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of journal articles and book chapters on the history of modern Catholic discourses on sexuality and eugenics.


Caracteristici

Offers an array of sources to provide critical insight into Catholic concern with the body and sexuality Explores the ways in which the Catholic church has, and continues to, regulate sexual behaviours Allows histories of sexuality and religion to speak to each other in new ways