Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science
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Overview
Sexology Uncensored brings together, for the first time, many of the key documents of the modern science of sexuality that emerged in the late nineteenth century. The early pioneers of the new field of sexology examined and classified sexual behaviors, identities, and relations. For years much of the material here has been "censored" in the sense that it is difficult to obtain, subject to restrictive circulation, or available only in medical archives. The extracts (which date from the 1880s to the 1940s) cover a variety of topics including gender and sexual difference; homosexuality; transsexuality and bisexuality; heterosexuality; marriage and sex manuals; reproductive control; eugenics; race; and various sexual proclivities.
Offering readers access to the primary materials on which contemporary sexology is founded, Sexology Uncensored is an invaluable record for all those interested in how we have come to think about sex and sexuality over the last hundred years.
Sexology in Culture and its companion Sexology Uncensored will interest all those concerned with understanding modern sexual discourse in its historical context.
Synopsis
Sexology Uncensored brings together, for the first time, many of the key documents of the modern science of sexuality that emerged in the late nineteenth century. The early pioneers of the new field of sexology examined and classified sexual behaviors, identities, and relations. For years much of the material here has been "censored" in the sense that it is difficult to obtain, subject to restrictive circulation, or available only in medical archives. The extracts (which date from the 1880s to the 1940s) cover a variety of topics including gender and sexual difference; homosexuality; transsexuality and bisexuality; heterosexuality; marriage and sex manuals; reproductive control; eugenics; race; and various sexual proclivities.
Offering readers access to the primary materials on which contemporary sexology is founded, Sexology Uncensored is an invaluable record for all those interested in how we have come to think about sex and sexuality over the last hundred years.
Sexology in Culture and its companion Sexology Uncensored will interest all those concerned with understanding modern sexual discourse in its historical context.
Booknews
This companion volume to Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires presents a documentary history of the early efforts of sexologists to study and classify sexual behaviors, identities, and relations. Representing the period between 1880 and World War I, the documents are organized into sections treating gender and sexual difference, homosexualities, transexuality and bisexuality, reproductive control, eugenics, race, and other sexual proclivities. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Editorials
Booknews
This companion volume to Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires presents a documentary history of the early efforts of sexologists to study and classify sexual behaviors, identities, and relations. Representing the period between 1880 and World War I, the documents are organized into sections treating gender and sexual difference, homosexualities, transexuality and bisexuality, reproductive control, eugenics, race, and other sexual proclivities. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.From the Publisher
"Sexology Uncensored brings together the crucial writings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that are the intellectual source from which many of our late twentieth-century notions about sex have sprung. These writings also reveal the terrible anxieties and intense fascinations about sex that our forefathers harbored and foisted on us. This is an intelligently -constructed collection that will be useful to the scholar and eye opening to the general reader." Lillian Faderman, California State University, Fresno and author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers
"[A] helpful companion volume of extracts." The Times Literary Supplement
"An impressive array of prominent researchers ... a remarkable selection of original documents illustrating the essays in Sexology in Culture - though they are fascinating reading even in isolation ... Either of these books on its own adds considerably to our understanding of the production of knowledge about sexuality, reproduction and race; together they provide an excellent basis for the study of writing around sex." The Fawcett Library Newsletter
"The reader gets a rich flavour of source material alongside incisive critical analysis; a productive combination for student, academic and general reader." The Times Higher Education Supplement