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A Global History of Sexual Science, 1880–1960
Sex has no history, but sexual science does. Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German, British and American counterparts, and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings of exotified “Others” became intimately linked. The first anthology to provide a worldwide perspective on the birth and development of the field, A Global History of Sexual Science contends that actors outside of Europe—in Asia, Latin America, and Africa—became important interlocutors in debates on prostitution, birth control or transvestitism. Ideas circulated through intellectual exchange, travel, and internationally produced and disseminated publications. Twenty scholars tackle specific issues, including the female orgasm and the criminalization of male homosexuality, to demonstrate how concepts and ideas introduced by sexual scientists gained currency throughout the modern world.
Rome Or Death
In 1875, a few years after Italian unification, General Garibaldi, the legendary military hero of the Risorgimento, left his island retreat in the Mediterranean for Rome. His battle cry no longer required, he was pursuing a mission that would become an obsession in his old age- to divert the River Tiber from Rome. Through this forgotten episode, Daniel Pick observes Garibaldi's passionate attachment to Rome and Italy. In the bitter debate that ensued many myths were laid bare, and prevailing medical, social and political anxieties about the future of the state were exposed. In the ebb and flow of this epic project, strong currents of emotion swirled around this larger-than-life Victorian her...
Female Sexual Inversion
An examination of how female same-sex desires were represented in a wide range of Italian and British medical writings, 1870-1920. It shows how the psychiatric category of sexual inversion was positioned alongside other medical ideas of same-sex desires, such as the virago, tribade-prostitute, fiamma and gynaecological explanations.
IBSS: Sociology: 2009 Vol. 59
First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Histories of Sexualities: Tribades, tommies, and transgressives
The annual Lesbian Lives conference has been held in University College Dublin since 1993. This title includes papers that cover a period in history from the medieval to the very modern. The success of the conference held in 2006 entitled 'Historicising the Lesbian' inspired this collection of essays.
2010 [catalog]
Reviews are an important aspect of scholarly discussion because they help filter out which works are relevant in the yearly flood of publications and are thus influential in determining how a work is received. The IBR, published again since 1971 as an interdisciplinary, international bibliography of reviews, it is a unique source of bibliographical information. The database contains entries on over 1.2 million book reviews of literature dealing primarily with the humanities and social sciences published in 6,820, mainly European scholarly journals. Reviews of more than 560,000 scholarly works are listed. The database increases every year by 60,000 entries. Every entry contains the following information: On the work reviewed: author, title On the review: reviewer, periodical (year, edition, page, ISSN), language, subject area (in German, English, Italian) Publisher, address of journal
