'Curing Queers'

Mental Nurses and Their Patients, 1935–74

Tommy Dickinson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2015
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-9588-7 (ISBN)

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Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive ‘treatment’ for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them. It examines why the majority of the nurses followed orders in administering the treatment – in spite of the zero success-rate in ‘straightening out’ queer men – but also why a small number surreptitiously defied their superiors by engaging in fascinating subversive behaviours. 'Curing queers' makes a significant and substantial contribution to the history of nursing and the history of sexuality, bringing together two sub-disciplines that combine only infrequently. It will be of interest to general readers as well as scholars and students in nursing, history, gender studies, and health care ethics and law.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality. -- .

Tommy Dickinson is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Mental Health at King’s College London -- .

Introduction
1. Oppression and suppression of the sexual deviant, 1939–67
2. Work and practice of mental nurses, 1930–59
3. ‘Subordinate nurses’
4. ‘Subversive nurses’
5. Liberation, 1957–74
Concluding remarks
Epilogue
Bibliography
Appendix: biographies of interviewees
Index -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.2015
Reihe/Serie	Nursing History and Humanities
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, black & white
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7190-9588-3 / 0719095883
ISBN-13	978-0-7190-9588-7 / 9780719095887
Zustand	Neuware