Open AccessEspaña y la cruzada médica contra la masturbación (1800-1900). Elementos para una genealogía
Author(s) -
Francisco Vázquez García,
José Benito Seoane Cegarra
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
hispania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.189
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1988-8368
pISSN - 0018-2141
DOI - 10.3989/hispania.2004.v64.i218.170
Subject(s) - governmentality , subjectivity , bourgeoisie , context (archaeology) , humanities , sociology , field (mathematics) , gender studies , ethnology , political science , art , law , philosophy , history , politics , epistemology , mathematics , archaeology , pure mathematics
This paper explains the «medicalisation» of onanism in nineteenth-century Spain. We - take studies on liberal governmentality as a methodological paradigm. The medical campaign against masturbation is placed at the crossroads of two strands. First, we find the rise of the bourgeois family considered as a private field. Second, we see a mode of subjectivity adapted in accordance with this new domestic space. We analyze, in the context of nineteenth-century Spain, the conflict between Medicine, Education and the Church to control this process