Histories of sexology : between science and politics /: between science and politics. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alain Giami, Sharman Levinson.
• Editors: Giami, Alain; Levinson, Sharman
• Contents: Part 1. Political and Ideological translations and appropriations 1. Sexology's unexpected progressivness in the Cold War East: Shaping people's sexual selves, socialist societies (Kateřina Lišková) 2. 'Humanitarian hedonists' as sex educators: the medical and political work of Fritz Brupbacher (1874-1945) and Paulette Brupbacher (1880-1967) (Christian Kaiser) 3. 'Healthy' relationships: feminism and the psy disciplines in the political history of sexual violence in contemporary America (Stéphanie Pache) 4. Saving Sexual Science: Kinsey and American Religious-Conservative Politics (Alexandre Paturel, Véronique Mottier, Cynthia Kraus) 5. Medicine and the paradox of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Switzerland: toward a new system of coercion (1940-1960) (Taline Garibian) 6. Politics, Religion and Sexuality: psychoanalysis and sexology in the Brazilian publishing market in the first decades of the 20TH century (Jane Russo & Sérgio Carrara) Part 2. Circulation, Hybridization and Bodies of Knowledge 7. Shaping the Erotic Body: Technology and Women's Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century American Medicine (Donna J. Drucker) 8. 'Lack of clarity' and 'false premises' Partnership and translations in impotence-related petitions for marriage annulment in 19th-century Spain (Marie Walin) 9. Popular Medical Books and Defloration: Shaping Femininity and Masculinity in the Nineteenth Century (Pauline Mortas) 10. Girl or boy? The French birth of the word sexologie (1901-1912) (Gonzague de Larocque-Latour) 11. Marie Bonaparte and female frigidity: from physiology to psychology (Sylvie Chaperon et Camille Noûs) 12. Hernani de Irajá and the early years of Brazilian sexology (Alessandro Ezabella) 13. The Pornographic Object of Knowledge: Pornography as Epistemology (Jeffrey Escoffier) Part 3. Investions of deviant "others" 14. African hypersexuality: a threat to white settlers? The stigmatization of 'black sexuality' as a means of regulating 'white sexuality' (Delphine Peiretti-Courtis) 15. Sexological discourses and the self in Rachilde's Monsieur Vénus (1884) and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) (Kayte Stokoe) 16. The Various Stages of the Alphabet Soup: from Sade to modern times (Gert Hekma) 17. The origins of the theory of sexual fétichisme: articles by Charcot and Magnan (1882) and Alfred Binet (1887) (André Béjin).
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.709; Sexology -- History; Sex -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030658137
• Related ISBNs: 9783030658120
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