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Wolfenden's Witnesses - Homosexuality in Postwar Britain (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Wolfenden's Witnesses - Homosexuality in Postwar Britain (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Genders and Sexualities in History
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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.
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