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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.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2016.,
Description:	xi, 316 p. :digital ; : 25 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Homosexuality - History - 20th century. - Great Britain -
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. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016. - xi, 316 p. :digital ;25 cm. - Genders and sexualities in history. - 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--Corporate Names:

1209980
Great Britain.
Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution.Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offenses and Prostitution.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1209981
Homosexuality
--History--Great Britain--20th century.

LC Class. No.: HQ76.8.G7 / L34 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 306.766094109045

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