Kirsten Leng
Biographic Data
| ID | 645823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsten Leng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Leng |
| SIGNATURE | LENG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6638-2273 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century
In New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century, Sabrina Fuchs Abrams analyzes the work of six New York–based women writers active during the early to mid-twentieth century. The authors under examination—Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Tess Slesinger, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Dawn Powell, and Mary McCarthy—hailed from diverse class, ethnic, and racial backgrounds and vary in how familiar they are to present-day readers. However, they were…
Readers respond to Alison Bechdel
This paper examines letters written to American cartoonist Alison Bechdel by fans of her now beloved comic, Dykes to Watch Out For (DTWOF; 1983–2008). These letters, written over the course of the strip’s long run, offer fascinating insights into readers’ reactions and emotional attachments to DTWOF, the diversity of the strip’s appeal, and the potential political consequences of fans’ deep affective investments. The letters show that the comic c…
Comedy as a Practice of Care
This article considers comedy as a practice of care. Its analysis focuses on major US late-night talk shows produced during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. Drawing on interdisciplinary feminist scholarship about care and autobiographical reflection, I argue that comedy plays important roles in cultivating capacities for physical, emotional, and intellectual development; maintaining social ties; supporting well-being; and sustaining …
Uproarious
Fumerism as Queer Feminist Activism
Histories of sexology today
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
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 …
Historicising ‘Compulsory Able‐bodiedness’
Sexual Politics and Feminist Science
Sexual Politics and Feminist Science examines German-speaking women’s heretofore-neglected contributions to the rethinking of sex, gender, and sexuality taking place within sexology between 1900 and 1933. At a time when sex and gender were sites of intense political contestation, women engaged with new medico-scientific paradigms for understanding sex in order to theorize bodies, drives, and desires in ways that challenged the status quo, refuted…
Sexual Politics and Feminist Science
Sexual Politics and Feminist Science
Britain, and the United States; special thanks go to Jens Dobler at the Schwules Museum in Berlin for being on the lookout for rare documents on female homosexuality and same-sex love during the Wilhelmine era, and to the volunteers at the Spinnboden
Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past
The question of how knowledge about sex has been constructed in various places and times is an enduring topic of interest among historians of sexuality. Scholars have thus far dedicated considerabl
Magnus Hirschfeld’s Meanings
In view of his continuing political and cultural currency in Germany and beyond, this article endeavours to understand the widespread and singular interest in sexologist and sex reformer Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) as a historical figure. To this end, it analyses four book-length biographies, two in English and two in German, written between the mid-1980s and the early 2010s. By highlighting repeated themes, claims and assertions, the article d…
Sex and the Weimar Republic
In her highly original and wide-ranging study, Laurie Marhoefer makes a number of provocative and persuasive arguments regarding the character and significance of sexual politics in the Weimar Republic. She specifically examines the creation of a certain kind of sexual freedom between 1918 and 1933, and the relationship between sex and the stability of democracy during those same years. According to Marhoefer, the particular texture of sexual fre…
The personal is scientific
This article addresses the roles women and gender played in the production of sexological knowledge in the early 20th century, particularly in German-speaking Europe. Although existing scholarship focuses almost exclusively on the work of "founding fathers" such as Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Magnus Hirschfeld, women in fact made important contributions to the field. Based on analysis of texts written between 1900 and 1931, this article shows ho…
Culture, Difference, and Sexual Progress in Turn-of-the-Century Europe
Permutations of the Third Sex
This article examines how three German-speaking feminists, Anna Rüling, Johanna Elberskirchen, and Rosa Mayreder, engaged the frequent discursive conflation of feminism and homosexuality at the turn of the twentieth century as an opportunity to articulate new models of female sexual subjectivity and thereby intervene in the contemporaneous “woman question.” All three authors rejected the maternalist definition of womanhood, which had become incre…
Sex, Science, and Fin-De-Siècle Feminism
This article explores the "tactical polyvalency" of scientific discourse for early twentieth-century feminism by examining the writings of Johanna Elberskirchen (1864-1943), an independent and prolific agitator on behalf of women's and homosexual emancipation in Wilhelmine Germany. Based on an analysis of four texts written by Elberskirchen, I argue that science offered Elberskirchen and feminists like her an opportunity to assert truthful "facts…
Love in the Time of Communism
Soap and Water
Peer Reviewed
Looking for a Few Good Males
Evaluation of a Voluntary Menu-Labeling Program in Full-Service Restaurants
Objectives. We assessed whether labeling restaurant menus with information on the nutrient content of menu items would cause customers to alter their ordering patterns. Methods. Six full-service restaurants in Pierce County, Washington, added nutrition information to their menus, and they provided data on entrée sales for 30 days before and 30 days after the information was added. We assessed the prelabeling versus postlabeling difference in nutr…
Evaluation of a Voluntary Menu-Labeling Program in Full-Service Restaurants
Objectives. We assessed whether labeling restaurant menus with information on the nutrient content of menu items would cause customers to alter their ordering patterns. Methods. Six full-service restaurants in Pierce County, Washington, added nutrition information to their menus, and they provided data on entrée sales for 30 days before and 30 days after the information was added. We assessed the prelabeling versus postlabeling difference in nutr…
Fumerism as Queer Feminist Activism
Histories of sexology today
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 …
Historicising ‘Compulsory Able‐bodiedness’
Evaluation of a Voluntary Menu-Labeling Program in Full-Service Restaurants
Objectives. We assessed whether labeling restaurant menus with information on the nutrient content of menu items would cause customers to alter their ordering patterns. Methods. Six full-service restaurants in Pierce County, Washington, added nutrition information to their menus, and they provided data on entrée sales for 30 days before and 30 days after the information was added. We assessed the prelabeling versus postlabeling difference in nutr…
Soap and Water
Peer Reviewed
Looking for a Few Good Males
Sex, Science, and Fin-De-Siècle Feminism
This article explores the "tactical polyvalency" of scientific discourse for early twentieth-century feminism by examining the writings of Johanna Elberskirchen (1864-1943), an independent and prolific agitator on behalf of women's and homosexual emancipation in Wilhelmine Germany. Based on an analysis of four texts written by Elberskirchen, I argue that science offered Elberskirchen and feminists like her an opportunity to assert truthful "facts…
Love in the Time of Communism
Permutations of the Third Sex
This article examines how three German-speaking feminists, Anna Rüling, Johanna Elberskirchen, and Rosa Mayreder, engaged the frequent discursive conflation of feminism and homosexuality at the turn of the twentieth century as an opportunity to articulate new models of female sexual subjectivity and thereby intervene in the contemporaneous “woman question.” All three authors rejected the maternalist definition of womanhood, which had become incre…
The personal is scientific
This article addresses the roles women and gender played in the production of sexological knowledge in the early 20th century, particularly in German-speaking Europe. Although existing scholarship focuses almost exclusively on the work of "founding fathers" such as Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Magnus Hirschfeld, women in fact made important contributions to the field. Based on analysis of texts written between 1900 and 1931, this article shows ho…
Culture, Difference, and Sexual Progress in Turn-of-the-Century Europe
Sex and the Weimar Republic
In her highly original and wide-ranging study, Laurie Marhoefer makes a number of provocative and persuasive arguments regarding the character and significance of sexual politics in the Weimar Republic. She specifically examines the creation of a certain kind of sexual freedom between 1918 and 1933, and the relationship between sex and the stability of democracy during those same years. According to Marhoefer, the particular texture of sexual fre…
Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past
The question of how knowledge about sex has been constructed in various places and times is an enduring topic of interest among historians of sexuality. Scholars have thus far dedicated considerabl
Magnus Hirschfeld’s Meanings
In view of his continuing political and cultural currency in Germany and beyond, this article endeavours to understand the widespread and singular interest in sexologist and sex reformer Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) as a historical figure. To this end, it analyses four book-length biographies, two in English and two in German, written between the mid-1980s and the early 2010s. By highlighting repeated themes, claims and assertions, the article d…
Sexual Politics and Feminist Science
Sexual Politics and Feminist Science examines German-speaking women’s heretofore-neglected contributions to the rethinking of sex, gender, and sexuality taking place within sexology between 1900 and 1933. At a time when sex and gender were sites of intense political contestation, women engaged with new medico-scientific paradigms for understanding sex in order to theorize bodies, drives, and desires in ways that challenged the status quo, refuted…
Sexual Politics and Feminist Science
Sexual Politics and Feminist Science
Britain, and the United States; special thanks go to Jens Dobler at the Schwules Museum in Berlin for being on the lookout for rare documents on female homosexuality and same-sex love during the Wilhelmine era, and to the volunteers at the Spinnboden
Forum Introduction
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 …
Historicising ‘Compulsory Able‐bodiedness’
Uproarious
Fumerism as Queer Feminist Activism
Histories of sexology today
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 …
Comedy as a Practice of Care
This article considers comedy as a practice of care. Its analysis focuses on major US late-night talk shows produced during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. Drawing on interdisciplinary feminist scholarship about care and autobiographical reflection, I argue that comedy plays important roles in cultivating capacities for physical, emotional, and intellectual development; maintaining social ties; supporting well-being; and sustaining …
Readers respond to Alison Bechdel
This paper examines letters written to American cartoonist Alison Bechdel by fans of her now beloved comic, Dykes to Watch Out For (DTWOF; 1983–2008). These letters, written over the course of the strip’s long run, offer fascinating insights into readers’ reactions and emotional attachments to DTWOF, the diversity of the strip’s appeal, and the potential political consequences of fans’ deep affective investments. The letters show that the comic c…
New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century
In New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century, Sabrina Fuchs Abrams analyzes the work of six New York–based women writers active during the early to mid-twentieth century. The authors under examination—Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Tess Slesinger, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Dawn Powell, and Mary McCarthy—hailed from diverse class, ethnic, and racial backgrounds and vary in how familiar they are to present-day readers. However, they were…
Sociology (20 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · European history and politics (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (8 works) · Human sexuality (8 works)