Why is bisexuality the object of skepticism? Why do sexologists steer clear of it in their research? Why has bisexuality, in stark contrast to homosexuality, only recently emerged as a nascent political and cultural identity? Bisexuality has been regarded as mostly irrelevant to…
Sex: how should we do it, when should we do it, and with whom? How should we talk about and represent sex, what social institutions should regulate it, and what are other people doing? Throughout history human beings have searched for answers to such questions by turning to the …
Histories of Sexology: Between Science and Politics takes an interdisciplinary and reflexive approach to the historiography of sexology. Drawing on an intellectual history perspective informed by recent developments in science and technology studies and political history of scie…
HauptbeschreibungDie Geschichte der Sexualwissenschaft beginnt mit dem Italiener Mantegazza, der über die Physiologie der Liebe schrieb. Der Arzt Magnus Hirschfeld, der 1919 das Institut für Sexualwissenschaft gründete, warb um Toleranz für Homosexuelle, die Frauenrechtlerin Hel…