Sex has no history, but sexual science does. Starting in the late nineteenth century, people all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German 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, and transvestism. 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.

About the Author
Veronika Fuechtner is Associate Professor of German at Dartmouth College and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine. She is the author of Berlin Psychoanalytic and coeditor of Imagining Germany Imagining Asia. Douglas E. Haynes is Professor of History at Dartmouth College. He is author of Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India and Small-Town Capitalism in Western India and coeditor of Contesting Power and Towards a History of Consumption in South Asia. Ryan M. Jones is Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Geneseo and the author of a monograph on Mexican sexuality entitled Erotic Revolutions: Homosexuality, Masculinity, and Citizenship in Mexico, 1880-1965.

Reviews
"Full of compelling critical observations and original historical insights, [A Global History of Sexual Science] makes an important addition to the histories of sex, science, and modernity." * Isis Journal *
"This groundbreaking volume of essays offers the first historical account of the impact that the work of sexual scientists, doctors, writers and political activists from around the world had on the field of sexology and on wider sociopolitical changes during the 1880-1960 period." * Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society *
"A thoroughly vivid, nuanced, and much more inclusive picture of the historical making of sexual science and sexualities than previously available. This important volume will not only serve as a welcome resource in a variety of classrooms but also certainly remain standard reading for future scholars of (the history of) sexuality, colonialism, and science, as well as a range of area studies disciplines." * Journal of the History of Sexuality *



Book Information
ISBN 9780520293397
Author Veronika Fuechtner
Format Paperback
Page Count 496
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 680g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm