Science and Homosexualities is the first anthology by historians of science to examine European and American scientific research on sexual orientation since the coining of the word "homosexual" almost 150 years ago. This collection is particularly timely given the enormous scientific and popular interest in biological studies of homosexuality, and the importance given such studies in current legal, legislative and cultural debates concerning gay civil rights. However, scientific and popular literature discussing the biology of sexual orientation have been short-sighted in representing it as objective, new scientific work. This volume demonstrates that the quest for the biological "cause" of homosexuality and other sexualities is as old as the term itself. These essays explore the active role experimental subjects played in shaping scientific theories of homosexuality and cultural perceptions of sexuality and sexual identity. Finally this anthology studies the way in which this doctor-patient interaction shaped not only scientific theories of homosexuality, but also cultural perceptions and self-identities as well.

Contributors include: Garland E. Allen, Erin G. Carlston, Julian Carter, Alice D. Dreger, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Margaret Gibson, Stephanie Kenen, Hubert Kennedy, Harry Oosterhuis, James Steakley, Richard Pillard, Jennifer Terry

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Publisher

Routledge

Year

2013

ISBN

9781136047749

Edition

Topic

Sozialwissenschaften

Subtopic

LGBT-Studien

Cover
Half Title
Full Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Homosexual Bio-Histories: Genetic Nostalgias and the Quest for Paternity
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, First Theorist of Homosexuality
Hermaphrodites in Love: The Truth of the Gonads
Richard von Krafft-Ebing's “Step-Children Of Nature”: Psychiatry and the Making of Homosexual Identity
Inversion's Histories | History's Inversions: Novelizing Fin-de-Siècle Homosexuality
Clitoral Corruption: Body Metaphors and American Doctors' Constructions of Female Homosexuality, 1870–1900
Per scientiam adjustitiam: Magnus Hirschfeld and the Sexual Politics of Innate Homosexuality
Normality, Whiteness, Authorship: Evolutionary Sexology and the Primitive Pervert
“A Finer Differentiation”: Female Homosexuality and the American Medical Community, 1926–1940
Who Counts When You're Counting Homosexuals? Hormones and Homosexuality in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
How to Build a Man
The Search for a Genetic Influence on Sexual Orientation
The Double-Edged Sword of Genetic Determinism: Social and Political Agendas in Genetic Studies of Homosexuality, 1940–1994
The Seductive Power of Science in the Making of Deviant Subjectivity
Notes on Contributors
Index