Histories of Sexology Between Science and Politics 1st Edition by Alain Giami, Sharman Levinson ISBN 9783030658137 3030658139

1. History of Sexology and Theories of Sexuality: An Introduction

Part I. Political and Ideological Translations and Appropriations

2. Sexology’s Unexpected Progressiveness in the Cold War East: Shaping People’s Sexual Selves, Creating Socialist Societies

3. “Humanitarian Hedonists” as Sex Educators: The Medical and Political Work of Fritz Brupbacher (1874–1945) and Paulette Brupbacher (1880–1967)

4. ‘Healthy’ Relationships: Feminism and the Psy Disciplines in the Political History of Sexual Violence in Contemporary America

5. Saving Sexual Science: Kinsey and American Religious-Conservative Politics

5. Medicine and the Paradox of the Decriminalization of Homosexuality in Switzerland: Toward a New System of Coercion (1940–1960)

7. Politics, Religion, and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the Brazilian Publishing Market in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century

Part II. Circulation, Hybridization and Bodies of Knowledge

8. Shaping the Erotic Body: Technology and Women’s Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century American Medicine

9. “Lack of Clarity” and “False Premises”: Partnership and Translations in Impotence-Related Petitions for Marriage Annulment in Nineteenth-Century Spain

10. Popular Medical Books and Defloration: Shaping Femininity and Masculinity in the Nineteenth Century

11. Girl or Boy? The French Birth of the Word Sexologie (1901–1912)

12. Marie Bonaparte and Female Frigidity: From Physiology to Psychology

13. Hernani de Irajá and the Early Years of Brazilian Sexology

14. The Pornographic Object of Knowledge: Pornography as Epistemology

Part III. Inventions of Deviant “Others”

15. African Hypersexuality: A Threat to White Settlers? The Stigmatization of “Black Sexuality” as a Means of Regulating “White Sexuality”

16. Sexological Discourses and the Self in Rachilde’s Monsieur Vénus (1884) and Radclyffe Hall’s the Well of Loneliness (1928)

17. The Various Stages of the Alphabet Soup: From Sade to Modern Times

18. The Origins of the Theory of Sexual Fetishism: Articles by Charcot and Magnan (1882) and Alfred Binet (1887)

Part IV. Conclusion

19. Sexology and Sciences of Sex as an Observatory for Political Histories of Science