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Vita Sexualis - Ralph M. Leck

Vita Sexualis

Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science

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Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2020
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08516-1 (ISBN)
CHF 41,85 inkl. MwSt
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, and founded the world's first organization dedicated to the legal and social emancipation of homosexuals. Ralph M. Leck returns Ulrichs to his place as the inventor of the science of sexual heterogeneity. Leck's analysis situates sexual science in a context that includes politics, aesthetics, the languages of science, and the ethics of gender. Although he was the greatest nineteenth-century scholar of sexual heterogeneity, Ulrichs retained certain traditional conjectures about gender. Leck recognizes these subtleties and employs the analytical concepts of modernist vita sexualis and traditional psychopathia sexualis to articulate philosophical and cultural differences among sexologists. Original and audacious, Vita Sexualis uses a bedrock figure's scientific and political innovations to open new insights into the history of sexual science, legal systems, and Western amatory codes.

Ralph M. Leck has taught for many years in the University Honors Program at Indiana State University. He is the former director of Peace and Justice Studies at Marian University, Indianapolis. He is the author of Georg Simmel and Avant-Garde Sociology: The Birth of Modernity, 1880–1920.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 8 black & white photographs
Verlagsort Baltimore
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-252-08516-7 / 0252085167
ISBN-13 978-0-252-08516-1 / 9780252085161
Zustand Neuware
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