The Politics of Love
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The Politics of Love

Sex Reformers and the Nonhuman

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The Politics of Love

Sex Reformers and the Nonhuman

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The Politics of Love explores the entanglement of emotions, social movements, and science in reconfiguring human and nonhuman relations. As Darwin's evolutionary theory informed the development of sexual science and the sex reform movement between the 1890s and the 1920s, sex reformers emerged as a group of diverse and culturally influential professionals—doctors, psychologists, artists, political activists, novelists, and academics—who shared a profound commitment to changing the world by changing the practice of sex. Sex reformers reinvented love as a scientific practice of sex that brought humans and nonhumans into the fold of early-twentieth-century racial, gender, and sexual politics. Carla Christina Hustak illuminates how sex reformers' insistence that love can shift human and nonhuman relations is more than just a historical narrative—it is a moment in time interconnected with urgent contemporary concerns over the global implications of our emotional relationships to other humans, animals, the earth, and atmospheric and technological forces.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9780520395237
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
20th Century History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction. Love Stories for the Nonhuman
  8. 1. “Becoming-Animal”: Evolving Love in Animal Sex Experiments
  9. 2. Eco/ontologies: Love, Sex Reform, and Environmental Sciences
  10. 3. Planetary Intimacies: Physics, Occultism, and Nonhumans in Love
  11. 4. Reinventing Love as Technologies of Sex and Marital Intimacies
  12. 5. Romancing Evolutionary Biology: Darwinism in the Metropolis
  13. Conclusion. Genealogies of Love: Darwinian Romances in Reproductive Sciences
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index