Heike Bauer: Sexology and Translation

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Is the emergence of modern sexuality a global phenomenon?<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439912485&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="2363_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Sexology and Translation</h1> <H2>Cultural and Scientific Encounters across the Modern World</H2> <h3>edited by Heike Bauer</h3> <P>cloth 1-4399-1248-3 $92.50, Sep 15, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>paper 1-4399-1249-1 $34.95, Sep 15, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-4399-1250-5 $34.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 284 pp 6 x 9 1 halftone </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"A valuable and nuanced analysis of sexology and modernity as intertwined transactional processes of dissemination, adaptation, and recirculation: conversations rather than the laying down of authoritative truths. Through the examination of a wide array of texts, including hitherto neglected popular genres, within which these ideas were being discussed, and extending the geographical range well beyond Western Europe and North America to Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia, the rise of modern sexuality is demonstrated to have been a global phenomenon, with effects nonetheless specifically situated within particular cultural contexts."</i><br>&#151<b>Dr. Lesley A. Hall</b>, Wellcome Library</I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p><i>Sexology and Translation</i> 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. <p>From feminist sexualities in modern Japan to Magnus Hirschfeld�s affective sexology, this book offers compelling new insights into how sexual ideas were formed in different contexts via a complex process of cultural negotiation. By focusing on issues of translation�the dynamic process by which ideas are produced and transmitted�the essays in <i>Sexology and Translation</i> provide an important corrective to the pervasive idea that sexuality is a �Western� construct that was transmitted around the world. <p>This volume deepens understanding of how the intersections between national and transnational contexts, between science and culture, and between discourse and experience, shaped modern sexuality. <P><I>Contributors include: Brian James Baer, Howard Chiang, Peter Cryle, Kate Fisher, Jennifer Fraser, Jana Funke, Liat Kozma, Birgit Lang, Leon Rocha, Katie Sutton, Michiko Suzuki, James Wilper, and the editor.</I> <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><i>"Here�finally�is a collection of essays wholly engaged with the transnational nature of knowledge exchange in early sexology. Exploiting the archival richness of materials newly available in the digital age, </i>Sexology and Translation<i> argues convincingly for a global perspective on the making of sexual knowledge as �modern.� Impressive as much in its geopolitical range as in its astute historical and cultural analysis, this fascinating collection signals the start of an exciting new phase in the critical assessment of the sexological project."</i> <br>&#151<b>Laura Doan</b>, author of <i>Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women�s Experience of Modern War</i> <p><i>"A necessary and welcome addition to the existing scholarship. Moving beyond the conventional geographical emphasis on the Anglo-Euro-American world, the volume is spatially inclusive and theoretically astute in its examination of the emergence of sexological ideas and discourses across the modern world. Readers will delight in finding rich and complex narratives on topics ranging from the intellectual history of frigidity, sexological ideas in China and Russia, Arabic and Hebrew discourses on sex and sexuality, representations of sexuality within Peruvian literature, Japanese encounters with western writings on sex, plus a robust re-reading of western sexology and sexologists."</i> <br>&#151<b>Sanjam Ahluwalia</b>, Department of History and Women�s and Gender Studies Program, Northern Arizona University <BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Heike Bauer</b> is Senior Lecturer in English and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of <i>English Literary Sexology: Translations of Inversion, 1880�1930</i>, and editor of <i>Women and Cross-Dressing</i> and (with Matt Cook) <i>Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years</i>.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/sexual.html" TARGET="_top">Sexuality Studies/Sexual Identity</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/history.html" TARGET="_top">History</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/literature.html" TARGET="_top">Literature and Drama</a> </p> <BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2> <P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/sexual_studies.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Sexuality Studies</a></i>, edited by Janice Irvine and Regina Kunzel. </p><p><i>Sexuality Studies</i>, edited by Janice Irvine and Regina Kunzel, features work in sexuality studies broadly construed, in its social, cultural, and political dimensions, and in both historical and contemporary formations. The series includes titles located within disciplinary and interdisciplinary frames that combine theoretical methodologies with empirical research.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439912485&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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