Research Catalog

Title

Sexology and translation : cultural and scientific encounters across the modern world / edited by Heike Bauer.

Publication

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

Bauer, Heike

Description

vi, 275 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Examines the shape and shaping of sexual ideas and related scientific practices and cultural representations in parts of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South America between the late 19th century and the years leading up to World War II, offering insights on the intersections between sexuality and modernity in a range of disciplinary, cultural, and (trans)national contexts.

Series Statement

Sexuality studies

Uniform Title

Sexuality studies.

Subjects

• Sex
• Sexology > history
• Sex > Cross-cultural studies
• Sexuality > history
• Sexology > Cross-cultural studies
• LITERARY CRITICISM > Gay & Lesbian
• History, 20th Century
• History, 19th Century
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Cross-cultural studies
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies
• Sexuality > ethnology
• HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index.

Contents

Introduction : translation and the global histories of sexuality / Heike Bauer -- Conceptualizations. Translation as lexical invention : an intellectual history of Frigiditas and anaphrodisia / Peter Cryle ; Translation as transposition : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Darwinian thought, and the concept of love in German sexual modernity / Brigit Lang ; Representing the "third sex" : cultural translations of the sexological encounter in early twentieth-century Germany / Katie Sutton ; Data of desire : translating (homo)sexology in Republican China / Howard Chiang -- Formations. British sexual science beyond the medical : cross-disciplinary, cross-historical, and cross-cultural translations / Kate Fisher and Jana Funke ; Translating sexology in late-Tsarist and early-Soviet Russia : politics, literature, and the science of sex / Brian James Baer ; Translating sexology, writing the nation : sexual discourse and practice in Hebrew and Arabic in the 1930s / Liat Kozma ; Translation and two "Chinese sexologies" : Double plum and Sex histories / Leon Antonio Rocha -- Dis/identifications. Novel translations of the scientific stubject : Clorinda Matteo de Turner, Margarita Práxedes Muñoz, and the gendered shaping of discourses of desire in 19th-century Peru ; The translation of Edward Carpenter's The intermediate sex in early twentieth-century Japan / Michiko Suzuki ; Translation and the construction of a "Uranian" identity : Edward Prime-Stevenson's [Xavier Mayne's] The intersexes (1908) / James P. Wilper ; Suicidal subjects : translation and the affective foundations of Magnus Hirschfield's sexology / Heike Bauer.

Call Number

JFE 16-11755

ISBN

• 9781439912485
• 1439912483
• 9781439912492
• 1439912491

LCCN

2015000678

OCLC

906027727

Title

Sexology and translation : cultural and scientific encounters across the modern world / edited by Heike Bauer.

Publisher

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Sexuality studies

Sexuality studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index.

Local Note

ED: UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. COLLECTION OF NEW PAPERS. EXAMINES PROCESS OF CULTURAL NEGOTIATION.

Added Author

Bauer, Heike, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-11755