Overview
- Brings together scholars, practitioners and activists from varied disciplinary backgrounds and national contexts
- Examines the roles played by activists fighting for sexual and human rights in shaping and reshaping theories of sexuality
- Offers much needed research on the overlapping histories produced from differing historiographical perspectives and objectives caused by the blurring of lines between academic research, clinical practice and activism
Part of the book series: Global Queer Politics (GQP)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Political and Ideological Translations and Appropriations
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Circulation, Hybridization and Bodies of Knowledge
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Inventions of Deviant “Others”
Keywords
- History of sexuality
- History of sexology
- LGBT history
- gay history
- gender studies
- sexuality studies
- Science and Technology Studies
- sex research
- sexual medicine
- activists
- theories of sexuality
- human rights
- sexual minorities
- cultural politics
- sexological
- sexual violence
- Protosexological
- femininity
- masculinity
- bio-power
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alain Giami is Emeritus Research Professor at Inserm (National Institute of Health and Medical Research) in Paris, France. He is currently the Chair of the World Association for Sexual Health Scientific Committee (2017-2021). Among other books, he has co-edited Sexual Revolutions, (2015).
Sharman Levinson is Associate Professor at the University of Angers, France, where she specializes in history of French physiology and psychology. Affiliated with the Gender, Sexuality, and Society Program at the American University of Paris, she is also President of the Association pour la Recherche et l’Intervention Muséale en Psychologie.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Histories of Sexology
Book Subtitle: Between Science and Politics
Editors: Alain Giami, Sharman Levinson
Series Title: Global Queer Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65813-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65812-0Published: 13 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65815-1Published: 14 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65813-7Published: 12 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2569-1317
Series E-ISSN: 2569-1309
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 298
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social History, Gender and Sexuality, Political Theory, Politics and Gender, Queer Theory