Article ID: CBB870816587

Histories of Sexology Today: Reimagining the Boundaries of Scientia Sexualis (2021)

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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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Article Katie Sutton (2021) Kinsey and the Psychoanalysts: Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge Production in Post-War US Sex Research. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 120-147). unapi

Article Kate Davison (2021) Cold War Pavlov: Homosexual Aversion Therapy in the 1960s. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 89-119). unapi

Article Benjamin Kahan (2021) The Unexpected American Origins of Sexology and Sexual Science: Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Orson Squire Fowler, and the Scientification of Sex. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 71-88). unapi

Article Ina Linge (2021) The Potency of the Butterfly: The Reception of Richard B. Goldschmidt’s Animal Experiments in German Sexology Around 1920. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 40-70). unapi

Article Sarah Bull (2021) More Than a Case of Mistaken Identity: Adult Entertainment and the Making of Early Sexology. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 10-39). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Marco D. Ornelas-Cruces
Alonso-Pavón, José Antonio
Erica Torrens-Rojas
Granados-Riveros, Martha Lucía
Cheé-Santiago, Jocelyn
Mitrofanov, Ruslan
Concepts
Discipline formation
Historiography
Sexology
History of science, as a discipline
Homosexuality
Science and gender
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Spain
Russia
Portugal
Italy
France
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