Sexual politics and feminist science : women sexologists in Germany, 1900-1933

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In Sexual Politics and Feminist Science, Kirsten Leng restores the work of female sexologists to the forefront of the history of sexology. While male researchers who led the practice of early-twentieth-century sexology viewed women and their ...

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Main Author: Leng, Kirsten, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2017.
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
1900-1999
Women sexologists > Germany > History > 20th century.
Feminists > Germany > History > 20th century.
Sexology > Germany > History > 20th century.
Women > Sexual behavior > Germany > History > 20th century.
Sex role > Germany > History > 20th century.
Feminism and science > Germany > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Feminism and science
Feminists
Sex role
Sexology
Women sexologists
Women > Sexual behavior
Germany
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : women and sexology : knowledge, possibilities, and problematic legacies
  • The emergence of sexology in early twentieth century Germany
  • As natural as eating, drinking, and sleeping : redefining the female sex
  • Challenging the limits of sex : envisioning new gendered subjectivities and sexualities
  • Troubling normal, taking on patriarchy : criticizing male (hetero)sexuality
  • The erotics of racial regeneration : eugenics, maternity, and sexual
  • New social and moral values will have to prevail : negotiating crisis and opportunity in the First World War
  • Fluid gender, rigid sexuality : constrained potential in the post-war period.

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