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Wolfenden's Witnesses = Homosexuality in Postwar Britain /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Wolfenden's Witnesses/ by Brian Lewis.
Reminder of title:	Homosexuality in Postwar Britain /
Author:	Lewis, Brian.
Description:	XI, 316 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	World History, Global and Transnational History. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137321503
ISBN:	9781137321503

Wolfenden's Witnesses = Homosexuality in Postwar Britain /
Lewis, Brian.

Wolfenden's WitnessesHomosexuality in Postwar Britain /[electronic resource] :by Brian Lewis. - 1st ed. 2016. - XI, 316 p.online resource. - Genders and Sexualities in History,2730-9479. - Genders and Sexualities in History,.

The Wolfenden Report of 1957 has long been recognized as a landmark in moves towards gay law reform. What is less well known is that the testimonials and written statements of the witnesses before the Wolfenden Committee provide by far the most complete and extensive array of perspectives we have on how homosexuality was understood in mid-twentieth century Britain. Those giving evidence, individually or through their professional associations, included a broad cross-section of official, professional and bureaucratic Britain: police chiefs, policemen, magistrates, judges, lawyers and Home Office civil servants; doctors, biologists (including Alfred Kinsey), psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists; prison governors, medical officers and probation officers; representatives of the churches, morality councils and progressive and ethical societies; approved school headteachers and youth organization leaders; representatives of the army, navy and air force; and a small handful of self-described but largely anonymous homosexuals. This volume presents an annotated selection of their voices.

ISBN: 9781137321503

Standard No.: 10.1057/9781137321503doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1104930
World History, Global and Transnational History.

LC Class. No.: Q162

Dewey Class. No.: 500

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