The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality

by Benjamin Kahan

Book Overview

Shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Assocation Book Prize

-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 The Book of Minor Perverts, Benjamin Kahan sets out to chart the proliferation of sexual classification that arose with the advent of nineteenth-century sexology. The book narrates the shift from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022660795X
• ISBN13: 9780226607955
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"