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Vita sexualis : Karl Ulrichs and the origins of sexual science /

Karl Ulrichs's studies of sexual diversity galvanized the burgeoning field of sexual science in the nineteenth century. But in the years since, his groundbreaking activism has overshadowed his scholarly achievements. Ulrichs publicly defied Prussian law to agitate for gay equality and marriage,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Leck, Ralph Matthew, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: post-victorians and sexual science
  • Acknowledgments
  • Motifs in sexual science
  • Inventing sexual liberalism
  • The epistemic politics of nature
  • The science of agape
  • Sexual degeneration and bourgeois culture : from eduard reich to max nordau
  • Normalizing the marquis de sade : ivan bloch and historical sexology
  • Afterword: ulrichs street and epistemic politics
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.