"All the World's a Stage": Dora Russell, Norman Haire, and the 1929 London World League for Sexual Reform Congress
2003; University of Texas Press; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/sex.2003.0056
ISSN1535-3605
Autores Tópico(s)European history and politics
ResumoWHEN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE penned the lines in Twelfth Night, "If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction" (3.4.127-28), he very aptly described the drama, intrigue, and machinations that would characterize the World League for Sexual Reform congress that met in London in 1929. This essay describes that encounter: one of the key meetings during the interwar years between the English medical profession and radical social and sexual reformers. The World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR) was not a medical organization, although the League stipulated that its work was based upon the findings of sexual science, and many doctors were involved in it. The WLSR was [End Page 16] predominantly an organization committed to reforming society's attitudes about sexuality, and consequently its ranks included many people from outside the medical profession.
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