SEXUALITY AND MADNESS Volume 53  No. 2 (Summer 1986) Arien Mack, Editor

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Editor's Note

The presumption that motivated this special issue of SOCIAL RESEARCH is that attitudes towards sexuality and madness, two apparently quite different aspects of human behavior, have been and continue to be intimately connected.  This issue attempts to explore some of the ways these connections have manifested themselves at very different historical moments and in very different cultures.  I think the reader will agree that, even though this issue provides only fragments and glimpses of a clearly much risher landscape, it is nevertheless difficult to avoid the conclusion that sexualtiy and its sometimes companion, love, seem to lie at the roots of madness.

Arien Mack
Editor

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• Love, Sex, and Madness in Eighteenth-Century England

Roy Porter
 
• The Clitoridectomy Craze

Andrew Scull and Diane Favreau
 
• Women and Madness in Tudor and Stuart England

Michael MacDonald
 
• A Richer and a Gentler Sex

Caroll Smith-Rosenberg
 
• From Possession to Compulsion: Religion, Sex, and Madness in Popular Culture

Peter Gardella
 
• The True Story of Anna O.

John Forrester
 
• Madness and Sexuality in the New Guinea Highlands

Gilbert Herdt
 
• Female Sexuality and Madness in Russian Culture: Traditional Values and Psychiatric Theory

Julie Vail Brown

Notes on Contributors
(at time of publication)

Julie Vail Brown is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Diane Favreau is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.

John Forrester is Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science in the University of Cambridge.  He is the author of Language and the Origins of Psychoanalysis (1980).

Peter Gardella is Assistant Professor of Religion at Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y.  He wrote Innocent Ecstasy (1985).

Gilbert Herdt is Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago.  His most recent book is Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia (1984).

Michael MacDonald is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He is the author of Mystical Bedlam (1981).

Roy Porter is Senior Lecturer in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute, London.  He wrote English Society in the Eighteenth Century (1982) and edited Patients and Practitioners (1985).

Andrew Scull is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego at La Jolla.  His books include Museums of Madness (1979).

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg is Professor of History and Psychiatry and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  Her most recent book is Disordly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (1985).

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