Sexology and Translation: Cultural and Scientific Encounters across the Modern World

Book Overview

Sexology and Translation is the first study of the contemporaneous emergence of sexology in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Heike Bauer and her contributors-historians, literary and cultural critics, and translation scholars-address the intersections between sexuality and modernity in a range of contexts during the period from the 1880s to the 1930s.

From feminist sexualities in modern Japan to Magnus Hirschfeld's affective sexology,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439912491
• ISBN13: 9781439912492
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"