How to Do the History of Sexual Science

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3626558
AutoresBenjamin Kahan (0000-0002-7054-9125), Greta Lafleur
Año2023
Volumen29
Número1
Páginas1-12
Fecha de publicación2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1064-2684 • E-ISSN: 1527-9375
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/10642684-10144350
OpenAlexW4311946254
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas30

This introduction maps the ways in which sexual scientific thought circulated during the fin de siècle, tracing the interconnections between and breaks in the global circuits of sexological thought and how this circuitry continues to structure sexuality in the present. In so doing, Kahan and LaFleur position their approach and that of the special issue as a whole within the larger field of sexology, placing it in more robust dialogue with sexuality studies and attending in particular to sexology's racial and imperial logics. They examine the ways in which racial science and colonial knowledge constitute sexual science as an amorphous object, one with a problematically vast reach that contributes to contemporary understandings of racialization and undergirding colonial infrastructures. And yet, they argue, sexual science is not something that can be wished away or easily left behind, for its taxonomies and ways of knowing continue to structure identitarian frameworks of gender and sexuality

Biopower · Colonialism · Epistemology · Eugenics · Field (mathematics · Human sexuality · Political science · Race (biology · Racialization · Science studies · Sexology · Social science · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy