Katie Sutton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katie Sutton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katie |
| FAMILY NAME | Sutton |
| SIGNATURE | SUTTON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4803-5459 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An Ethics of Attentiveness: Photographic Portraits and Deviant Dwelling in German Queer and Trans Archives
Photographic portraits of queer subjects from the early 20 th century—shaped by early medical-scientific and legal practices—have often been identified with hegemonic ways of seeing, even when they re restaged in the present. In this article we argue that bringing an ethics of attentiveness to the analysis of such photographs reveals not only how embodied subjectivities were captured by the photographer’s lens, but also how our own feelings and s…
Curating Visual Archives of Sex
In this roundtable, four curators of exhibitions showcasing sexual archives and histories-with a particular focus on queer and trans experiences-were asked to reflect on their experiences working as scholars and artists across a range of museum and gallery formats. The exhibitions referred to below were Bring Your Own Body: Transgender between Archives and Aesthetics, curated by Jeanne Vaccaro (discussant) with Stamatina Gregory at The Cooper Uni…
Visual Histories of Sex
Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related to sexuality have led a growing number of scholars in recent years to place images and visual practices at the center of critical historical inquiries of sexual desire, subjectivity, and embodiment. At the same time, new critical histories of sexual science serve both to expand the temporal and geographical frames for investigating the historical relationships o…
Gelderloos, Carl. Biological Modernism: The New Human in Weimar Culture
Standing Outside Oneself: Transgender Gazing in Antje Rávik Strubel's Kältere Schichten Der Luft (2007) and in Den Wäldern Des Menschlichen Herzens (2016)
Expanding upon early feminist discussions of the ‘male gaze’ of classic Hollywood cinema, scholars have theorised the multiple modalities of a ‘transgender look’ or ‘gaze’. This involves considering trans(*) or transgender perspectives not just in terms of identity, but as a way of seeing that refuses to privilege the real over the figurative, and that can enable characters to envisage alternative futures. This article draws on discussions of tra…
Kinsey and the psychoanalysts: Cross-disciplinary knowledge production in post-war US sex research
The historical forces of war and migration impacted heavily on the disciplinary locations, practitioners, and structures of sexology and psychoanalysis that had developed in the first decades of the 20th century. By the late 1940s, the US was fast becoming the world centre of each of these prominent fields within the modern human sciences. During these years, the work of Alfred C. Kinsey and his team became synonymous with a distinctly North Amer…
Histories of sexology today: Reimagining the boundaries of scientia sexualis
The historiography of sexology is young. It is also expanding at a remarkable pace, both in terms of the volume of publications and, more notably, in terms of its geographical, disciplinary, and intersectional reach. This special issue takes stock of these new directions, while offering new research contributions that expand our understanding of the interdisciplinary and transnational formation of this field from the late 19th through to the mid …
Forum Introduction: Rethinking the Gendered History of Sexology
This Forum explores new directions in the history of sexology. The contributions included here draw upon the histories of gender and sexuality, science, medicine, law and the body. The featured papers analyse shifting theoretical conceptualisations of the ‘normal’, the role of gender, age and able-bodiedness in medical-scientific contexts, and representations of gendered violence in sexual scientific and criminological contexts. This co-authored …
Sexology’s Photographic Turn: Visualizing Trans Identity in Interwar Germany
The Queer Cases of Psychoanalysis: Rethinking the Scientific Study of Homosexuality, 1890s–1920s
This article charts the development of psychoanalytic cases of homosexuality in the early twentieth century against the backdrop of seemingly stable sexological understandings of congenital homosexual identity and behaviour. It argues that psychoanalysts offered alternative models to the taxonomies of sexology, which had remained intellectually tied to discourses of pathology and difference. It contrasts Freud’s approach to homosexuality in sever…
“We Too Deserve a Place in the Sun”: The Politics of Transvestite Identity in Weimar Germany
Cross-dressing took on new political meanings in Germany's Weimar Republic, with the emergence of organizations and periodicals aimed at promoting the interests of self-identified "transvestites." This new sexological category, developed by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910, formed the basis for a shared sense of identity and belonging among individuals who identified as members of the "opposite" sex. Their efforts represent a critical but forgotten mome…
The masculine woman in Weimar Germany
The Masculinized Female Athlete in Weimar Germany
Commentators in the popular media of Weimar Germany paid great attention to questions of women's sport, athleticism, and physicality. Their concerns were not restricted to women's reproductive capacities-rather, women's physical emancipation was increasingly interpreted within the framework of larger cultural discourses surrounding the "masculinization" and political emancipation of the modern woman. This article examines such representations of …
Histories of sexology today: Reimagining the boundaries of scientia sexualis
The historiography of sexology is young. It is also expanding at a remarkable pace, both in terms of the volume of publications and, more notably, in terms of its geographical, disciplinary, and intersectional reach. This special issue takes stock of these new directions, while offering new research contributions that expand our understanding of the interdisciplinary and transnational formation of this field from the late 19th through to the mid …
Visual Histories of Sex
Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related to sexuality have led a growing number of scholars in recent years to place images and visual practices at the center of critical historical inquiries of sexual desire, subjectivity, and embodiment. At the same time, new critical histories of sexual science serve both to expand the temporal and geographical frames for investigating the historical relationships o…
Sexology’s Photographic Turn: Visualizing Trans Identity in Interwar Germany
The Queer Cases of Psychoanalysis: Rethinking the Scientific Study of Homosexuality, 1890s–1920s
This article charts the development of psychoanalytic cases of homosexuality in the early twentieth century against the backdrop of seemingly stable sexological understandings of congenital homosexual identity and behaviour. It argues that psychoanalysts offered alternative models to the taxonomies of sexology, which had remained intellectually tied to discourses of pathology and difference. It contrasts Freud’s approach to homosexuality in sever…
The Masculinized Female Athlete in Weimar Germany
Commentators in the popular media of Weimar Germany paid great attention to questions of women's sport, athleticism, and physicality. Their concerns were not restricted to women's reproductive capacities-rather, women's physical emancipation was increasingly interpreted within the framework of larger cultural discourses surrounding the "masculinization" and political emancipation of the modern woman. This article examines such representations of …
The Masculinized Female Athlete in Weimar Germany
Commentators in the popular media of Weimar Germany paid great attention to questions of women's sport, athleticism, and physicality. Their concerns were not restricted to women's reproductive capacities-rather, women's physical emancipation was increasingly interpreted within the framework of larger cultural discourses surrounding the "masculinization" and political emancipation of the modern woman. This article examines such representations of …
The masculine woman in Weimar Germany
“We Too Deserve a Place in the Sun”: The Politics of Transvestite Identity in Weimar Germany
Cross-dressing took on new political meanings in Germany's Weimar Republic, with the emergence of organizations and periodicals aimed at promoting the interests of self-identified "transvestites." This new sexological category, developed by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910, formed the basis for a shared sense of identity and belonging among individuals who identified as members of the "opposite" sex. Their efforts represent a critical but forgotten mome…
The Queer Cases of Psychoanalysis: Rethinking the Scientific Study of Homosexuality, 1890s–1920s
This article charts the development of psychoanalytic cases of homosexuality in the early twentieth century against the backdrop of seemingly stable sexological understandings of congenital homosexual identity and behaviour. It argues that psychoanalysts offered alternative models to the taxonomies of sexology, which had remained intellectually tied to discourses of pathology and difference. It contrasts Freud’s approach to homosexuality in sever…
Sexology’s Photographic Turn: Visualizing Trans Identity in Interwar Germany
Forum Introduction: Rethinking the Gendered History of Sexology
This Forum explores new directions in the history of sexology. The contributions included here draw upon the histories of gender and sexuality, science, medicine, law and the body. The featured papers analyse shifting theoretical conceptualisations of the ‘normal’, the role of gender, age and able-bodiedness in medical-scientific contexts, and representations of gendered violence in sexual scientific and criminological contexts. This co-authored …
Kinsey and the psychoanalysts: Cross-disciplinary knowledge production in post-war US sex research
The historical forces of war and migration impacted heavily on the disciplinary locations, practitioners, and structures of sexology and psychoanalysis that had developed in the first decades of the 20th century. By the late 1940s, the US was fast becoming the world centre of each of these prominent fields within the modern human sciences. During these years, the work of Alfred C. Kinsey and his team became synonymous with a distinctly North Amer…
Histories of sexology today: Reimagining the boundaries of scientia sexualis
The historiography of sexology is young. It is also expanding at a remarkable pace, both in terms of the volume of publications and, more notably, in terms of its geographical, disciplinary, and intersectional reach. This special issue takes stock of these new directions, while offering new research contributions that expand our understanding of the interdisciplinary and transnational formation of this field from the late 19th through to the mid …
Gelderloos, Carl. Biological Modernism: The New Human in Weimar Culture
Standing Outside Oneself: Transgender Gazing in Antje Rávik Strubel's Kältere Schichten Der Luft (2007) and in Den Wäldern Des Menschlichen Herzens (2016)
Expanding upon early feminist discussions of the ‘male gaze’ of classic Hollywood cinema, scholars have theorised the multiple modalities of a ‘transgender look’ or ‘gaze’. This involves considering trans(*) or transgender perspectives not just in terms of identity, but as a way of seeing that refuses to privilege the real over the figurative, and that can enable characters to envisage alternative futures. This article draws on discussions of tra…
An Ethics of Attentiveness: Photographic Portraits and Deviant Dwelling in German Queer and Trans Archives
Photographic portraits of queer subjects from the early 20 th century—shaped by early medical-scientific and legal practices—have often been identified with hegemonic ways of seeing, even when they re restaged in the present. In this article we argue that bringing an ethics of attentiveness to the analysis of such photographs reveals not only how embodied subjectivities were captured by the photographer’s lens, but also how our own feelings and s…
Curating Visual Archives of Sex
In this roundtable, four curators of exhibitions showcasing sexual archives and histories-with a particular focus on queer and trans experiences-were asked to reflect on their experiences working as scholars and artists across a range of museum and gallery formats. The exhibitions referred to below were Bring Your Own Body: Transgender between Archives and Aesthetics, curated by Jeanne Vaccaro (discussant) with Stamatina Gregory at The Cooper Uni…
Visual Histories of Sex
Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related to sexuality have led a growing number of scholars in recent years to place images and visual practices at the center of critical historical inquiries of sexual desire, subjectivity, and embodiment. At the same time, new critical histories of sexual science serve both to expand the temporal and geographical frames for investigating the historical relationships o…
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · European history and politics (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Human sexuality (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art history (5 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (5 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (5 works)