IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB710974963

Sexology, sexual development, and hormone treatments in Southern Europe and Latin America, c.1920–40 (2023)

Beccalossi, Chiara (Author)

History of the Human Sciences
Volume: 36
Issue: 5
Pages: 94-121

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951231213028

DOI: 10.1177/09526951231213028

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

Endocrinology Hormone therapy Sexology 20th century, early Argentina Brazil Italy Spain

Displacing the physiological model that had held sway in 19th-century medical thinking, early 20th-century medical scientists working on hormones promoted a new understanding of the body, psychological reactions, and the sexual instinct, arguing that each were fundamentally malleable. Hormones came to be understood as the chemical messengers that regulated an individual's growth and sexual development, and sexologists interested in this area focused primarily on children and adolescents. Hormone research also promoted a view of the body in which ‘hermaphroditism’, homosexuality, and ‘sexual perversions’ such as masochism and sadism were attributed to anomalies in the internal secretions produced by the testes or the ovaries. This article focuses on Spanish, Italian, Argentinian, and Brazilian sexology shaped by endocrinological research in the interwar period. First, it shows the key role hormone treatments played in the historical development of sexology in Southern Europe and Latin America. Second, it looks at how sexologists employed hormone research to study human sexual development in the early stages of life, and how they set about ‘correcting’ what they viewed as ‘sexual anomalies’.

...More

Included in

Article Chiara Beccalossi; Kate Fisher; Jana Funke (2023) Sexology and development. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 3-14). unapi

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB710974963/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Chiara Beccalossi; (2021)
Types, Norms, and Normalisation: Hormone Research and Treatments in Italy, Argentina, and Brazil, c. 1900–50

Book Nordlund, Christer; (2011)
Hormones of Life: Endocrinology, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and the Dream of a Remedy for Sterility, 1930--1970

Article Sandra Eder; (2018)
Gender and Cortisone: Clinical Practice and Transatlantic Exchange in the Medical Management of Intersex in the 1950s

Article Matthew J. McLaughlin; (2021)
Quantifying Sexual Constitution: Abraham Myerson’s Endocrine Study of Male Homosexuality, 1938–1942

Article Eraso, Yolanda; (2007)
Biotypology, Endocrinology, and Sterilization: The Practice of Eugenics in the Treatment of Argentinian Women during the 1930s

Article Chiara Beccalossi; (2020)
Optimizing and Normalizing the Population Through Hormone Therapies in Italian Science, c. 1926–1950

Article López Vega, Antonio; (2011)
La cuestión sociosanitaria en la obra de Marañón en el contexto de la lucha contra las enfermedades infecciosas

Chapter Jane Russo; Sérgio Carrara; Alain Giami; Sharman Levinson; (2021)
Politics, Religion, and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the Brazilian Publishing Market in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century

Article Russo, Jane Araújo; Carrara, Sérgio Luís; (2002)
A psicanálise e a sexologia no Rio de Janeiro de entreguerras: entre a ciência e a auto-ajuda

Chapter Amparo Gómez; Brian Balmer; Antonio F. Canales; (2015)
Science Policy under Democracy and Dictatorship: An Introductory Essay

Book Amparo Gómez; Antonio F. Canales; Brian Balmer; (2015)
Science Policies and Twentieth-Century Dictatorships: Spain, Italy and Argentina

Article Mariana M. O. Sombrio; (2016)
Gender, Museums and Science: Wanda Hanke’s Ethnological Collections (1933–1958)

Article Petraglia Kropf, Simone; Di Liscia, María Silvia; (2010)
Bocio, mal de Chagas e identidad nacional. Enfermedades y polémicas en Argentina y Brasil (1910--1940)

Article Rafael Huertas; Enric Novella; (2013)
Sexo y Modernidad en la España de la Segunda República. Los discursos de la ciencia

Article Giulia Bovone; (2020)
Bioplastina Serono: il ricostituente preferito dagli italiani (XX secolo)

Article Enrique Wulff; (2019)
State of competition: Conceptual shoehorning behind priority on calcitonin precursor biosynthesis

Article Santesmases, María Jesús; (2006)
Peace Propaganda and Biomedical Experimentation: Influential Uses of Radioisotopes in Endocrinology and Molecular Genetics in Spain

Article Brookes, Barbara; (2006)
“The Glands of Destiny”: Hygiene, Hormones and English Women Doctors in the First Half of the 20th Century

Book Alejandra Uslenghi; (2016)
Latin America at Fin-de-Siecle Universal Exhibitions: Modern Cultures of Visuality

Article Hugo Klappenbach; Ana Maria Jacó-Vilela; (2016)
The Future of the History of Psychology in Argentina and Brazil

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}