Histories of sexology today: Reimagining the boundaries of scientia sexualis
Date
2020
Authors
Leng, Kirsten
Sutton, Katie
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Sage Publications Inc
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The historiography of sexology is young. It is also expanding at a remarkable pace, both in
terms of the volume of publications and, more notably, in terms of its geographical,
disciplinary, and intersectional reach. This special issue takes stock of these new
directions, while offering new research contributions that expand our understanding of
the interdisciplinary and transnational formation of this field from the late 19th through
to the mid 20th century. The five articles that make up this special issue stage historiographical interventions by challenging the tendency within sexological history to focus
on the medical, the homosexual, the human, and the Western European at the expense
of other disciplines, diagnoses, non-human subjects, and geographical locations. A particular strength of these contributions is their focus on mapping conversations among
and between sexologists on both sides of the Atlantic in the early to mid 20th century �
particularly in Germany, Britain, and the US � and between East and West in the early
Cold War era.
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History of the Human Sciences
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