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The book of minor perverts : sexology, etiology, and the emergences of sexuality
- Title
- The book of minor perverts : sexology, etiology, and the emergences of sexuality / Benjamin Kahan.
- Author
- Kahan, Benjamin
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 242 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities--what Michel Foucault deemed "minor perverts"--has never before been told. In this book, the author sets out to chart the proliferation of sexual classification that arose with the advent of nineteenth-century sexology. The book narrates the shift from Foucault's "thousand aberrant sexualities" to one: homosexuality. The focus here is less on the effects of queer identity and more on the lines of causation behind a surprising array of minor perverts who refuse to fit neatly into our familiar sexual frameworks. The result stands at the intersection of history, queer studies, and the medical humanities to offer us a new way of feeling our way into the past.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The walk-in closet: situational homosexuality and the always of desire -- Anthropologia sexualis, universalism, and the macro environments of sex -- Magia sexualis, sexual subjectivity, and the willfulness of sexual aim -- Sex in the age of Fordism: the standardization of sexual objects -- Volitional etiologies: toward a weak theory of etiology -- After Sedgwick: the Gordian knot of the great paradigm shift.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-8949
- ISBN
- 9780226607818
- 022660781X
- 9780226607955
- 022660795X
- LCCN
- 2018033471
- OCLC
- 1045671747
- Author
- Kahan, Benjamin, author.
- Title
- The book of minor perverts : sexology, etiology, and the emergences of sexuality / Benjamin Kahan.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9780226608006
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-8949