A Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1960 / Veronika Fuechtner, Douglas E. Haynes, Ryan M. Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fuechtner, Veronika, editor.

Haynes, Douglas E., editor.

Jones, Ryan M., editor.

Series:

California World History Library ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexology--History--20th century.

Sexology.

Sexology--History--19th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German, British, and American counterparts and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings of exotified "Others" became intimately linked. The first anthology to provide a worldwide perspective on the birth and development of the field, A Global History of Sexual Science contends that actors outside of Europe-in Asia, Latin America, and Africa-became important interlocutors in debates on prostitution, birth control, and transvestism. Ideas circulated through intellectual exchange, travel, and internationally produced and disseminated publications. Twenty scholars tackle specific issues, including the female orgasm and the criminalization of male homosexuality, to demonstrate how concepts and ideas introduced by sexual scientists gained currency throughout the modern world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward a Global History of Sexual Science: Movements, Networks, and Deployments / Fuechtner, Veronika / Haynes, Douglas E. / Jones, Ryan M.

PART ONE. EVOLUTION, SEXUAL SCIENCE, AND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE OTHER

1. Global Modernity and Sexual Science: Th e Case of Male Homosexuality and Female Prostitution, 1880-1950 / Ben, Pablo

2. "Let Us Leave the Hospital; Let Us Go on a Journey around the World": British and German Sexual Science and the Global Search for Sexual Variation / Fisher, Kate / Funke, Jana

3. Westermarck's Morocco: Th e Epistemic Politics of Cultural Anthropology and Sexual Science / Leck, Ralph

4. Monogamy's Nature: Global Sexual Science and the Secularization of Christian Marriage / Willey, Angela

5. The "Hottentot Apron": Genital Aberration in the History of Sexual Science / Hodes, Rebecca

PART TWO. SCIENCE BY THE BOOK AND UNRULY APPROPRIATIONS

6. Sexology in the Southwest: Law, Medicine, and Sexuality in Germany and Its Colonies / Tobin, Robert Deam

7 • Understanding R. D. Karve: Brahmacharya, Modernity, and the Appropriation of Global Sexual Science in Western India, 1927-1953 / Botre, Shrikant / Haynes, Douglas E.

8. The "Ellis Effect": Translating Sexual Science in Republican China, 1911-1949 / Hsu, Rachel Hui-Chi

9. Takahashi Tetsu and Popular Sexology in Early Postwar Japan, 1945-1970 / McLelland, Mark

10. Mexican Sexology and Male Homosexuality: Genealogies and Global Contexts, 1860-1957 / Jones, Ryan M.

11. The Science of Sexual Difference: Ogura Seizaburō, Hiratsuka Raichō, and the Intersection of Sexology and Feminism in Early-Twentieth-Century Japan / Suzuki, Michiko

12. Time for Sex: Th e Education of Desire and the Conduct of Childhood in Global/Hindu Sexology / Pande, Ishita

PART THREE. MOBILITY, TRAVEL, EXILE, AND THE CIRCUITS OF SEXOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE

13. Latin Eugenics and Sexual Knowledge in Italy, Spain, and Argentina: International Networks across the Atlantic / Beccalossi, Chiara

14. "Forms So Attenuated That They Merge into Normality Itself": Alexander Lipschütz, Gregorio Marañón, and Theories of Intersexuality in Chile, circa 1930 / MacMillan, Kurt

15. "Tyranny of Orgasm": Global Governance of Sexuality from Bombay, 1930s-1950s / Ahluwalia, Sanjam

16. Magnus Hirschfeld's Onnagata / Herrn, Rainer

17. Agnes Smedley between Berlin, Bombay, and Beijing: Sexology, Communism, and National Independence / Fuechtner, Veronika

18. The Limits of Transnationalism: The Case of Max Marcuse / Leng, Kirsten

Afterword: In the Shadow of Empire: The Words and Worlds of Sexual Science / Chiang, Howard

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520966673

0520966678

OCLC:

981948538