The emancipation of masturbation in twentieth-century Hungary
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F21%3A00118886" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/21:00118886 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/emancipation-of-masturbation-in-twentiethcentury-hungary/11DFF436B988D6AACCE5B09BC7E54C52" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/emancipation-of-masturbation-in-twentiethcentury-hungary/11DFF436B988D6AACCE5B09BC7E54C52</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X21000091" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0018246X21000091</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The emancipation of masturbation in twentieth-century Hungary
Original language description
In this article, I discuss the emancipation of masturbation in twentieth-century Hungary, focusing on the socialist, Kádár era (late 1950s to late 1980s), which I claim was the time when the discourses concerning masturbation underwent profound transformation. I use Thomas Laqueur's periodization of discourses on masturbation in the West and make the case that in Hungary, due to its twentieth-century political and intellectual history, which affected both the institutionalization of sexology and discourses on sexuality, there is a markedly different chronology. In Hungary, interwar socialists were the first to suggest a new approach toward masturbation but these ideas remained marginal during the Horthy regime and in the ‘Stalinist’ 1950s. In the early years of the Kádár regime, debates about sexual morality reformulated what should be understood under socialist sexual morality. The concept of socialist humanism, especially Imre Hirschler's work, linked early 1960s sex education with the interwar socialist discourse on sex and paved the way to the emancipation of masturbation and the establishment of a post-Stalinist, socialist sexual ethics. In the 1970s and 1980s, iconic sexologists like Vilmos Szilágyi and Béla Buda moved away from socialist humanism and continued Hirschler's work, but mirroring the perspectives of contemporary Western science.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ16-10639Y" target="_blank" >GJ16-10639Y: Intimate life during state socialism in comparative perspective. Sexuality, expertise, and power in East Central Europe (1948-1989)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Historical Journal
ISSN
0018-246X
e-ISSN
1469-5103
Volume of the periodical
64
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
25
Pages from-to
1403-1427
UT code for WoS article
000721321500013
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85101994660