A Global History of Sexual Science, 1880–1960Veronika Fuechtner, Douglas E. Haynes, Ryan M. Jones Sex has no history, but sexual science does. 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 or transvestitism. 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
Toward a Global History of Sexual Science | 1 |
PART | 27 |
Let Us Leave the Hospital Let Us Go on a Journey | 51 |
The Epistemic Politics | 70 |
the Secularization of Christian Marriage | 97 |
the History of Sexual Science | 118 |
PART | 139 |
Brahmacharya Modernity | 163 |
Takahashi Tetsu and Popular Sexology | 211 |
Ogura Seizaburō | 258 |
The Education of Desire and | 279 |
Latin Eugenics and Sexual Knowledge in Italy Spain | 305 |
Forms So Attenuated That They Merge into | 330 |
Global Governance | 353 |
In the Shadow of Empire | 444 |
Translating Sexual Science | 186 |
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A Global History of Sexual Science, 1880–1960 Veronika Fuechtner,Douglas E. Haynes,Ryan M. Jones Limited preview - 2018 |
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