‘Now you see them, now you don’t’. Sexual deviants and sexological expertise in communist Czechoslovakia

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<a href="http://hhs.sagepub.com/content/29/1/49.full.pdf?ijkey=E8CsGgCS29FAPZ7&keytype=finite" target="_blank" >http://hhs.sagepub.com/content/29/1/49.full.pdf?ijkey=E8CsGgCS29FAPZ7&keytype=finite</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952695115617383" target="_blank" >10.1177/0952695115617383</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
‘Now you see them, now you don’t’. Sexual deviants and sexological expertise in communist Czechoslovakia
Original language description
Despite its historical focus on aberrant behavior, sexology barely dealt with sexual deviants in 1950s Czechoslovakia. Rather, sexologists treated only isolated instances of deviance. The rare cases that went to court appeared mostly because they hindered work or harmed the national economy. Two decades later, however, the situation was markedly different. Hundreds of men were labeled as sexual delinquents and sentenced for treatment in special sexological wards at psychiatric hospitals. They endangered society, so it was claimed, by being unwilling or unable to conform to the family norm. The mode of subjection shifted from work to family. I analyse this change by using the tools of Gil Eyal’s sociology of expertise (2013), which focuses on shifts in institutional matrices that bring forth new groups of agents creating new expert networks. I argue that sexology became profoundly institutionalized in the early 1970s, which brought the discipline closer to psychiatry and forensic science.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AO - Sociology, demography
OECD FORD branch
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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