Sexology in culture: labelling bodies and desires
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 …
"Sex between Body and Mind is the first study of the disciplinary development of sexology and psychoanalysis and their inter-relationship across European knowledge cultures. It charts the ways in which knowledge about human sexuality was produced and negotiated by practitioners …
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…
This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences. It is a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siecle Central Europe to the inter…
