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Sibling incest, madness, and the "Jews".

From: Social Research  |  Date: 6/22/1998  |  Author: Gilman, Sander L.

The subject of child abuse and incest elicits public debate, but at the turn of the 20th century it is virtual absent in the categorical study of deviance. Questions of incest however did dominated debates in France from 1874 to 1886. Inbreeding in the late 19th century was often called the social problem of the day.

How does one organize the categories that we call "deviance"? To examine the nosology of the deviant in modern (post-Enlightenment) culture one is constrained to use categories ...

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