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oapen-20.500.12657-621532024-03-27T14:14:46Z Sexual Politics and Feminist Science Leng, Kirsten European history Psychology: sexual behaviour Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMU Psychology: sexual behaviour In Sexual Politics and Feminist Science, Kirsten Leng restores the work of female sexologists to the forefront of the history of sexology. While male researchers who led the practice of early-twentieth-century sexology viewed women and their sexuality as objects to be studied, not as collaborators in scientific investigation, Leng pinpoints nine German and Austrian "women sexologists" and "female sexual theorists" to reveal how sex, gender, and sexuality influenced the field of sexology itself. Leng’s book makes it plain that women not only played active roles in the creation of sexual scientific knowledge but also made significant and influential interventions in the field. Sexual Politics and Feminist Science provides readers with an opportunity to rediscover and engage with the work of these pioneers. Leng highlights sexology’s empowering potential for women, but also contends that in its intersection with eugenics, the narrative is not wholly celebratory. By detailing gendered efforts to understand and theorize sex through science, she reveals the cognitive biases and sociological prejudices that ultimately circumscribed the transformative potential of their ideas. Ultimately, Sexual Politics and Feminist Science helps readers to understand these women’s ideas in all their complexity in order to appreciate their unique place in the history of sexology. 2023-03-29T15:51:27Z 2023-03-29T15:51:27Z 2017 book ONIX_20230329_9781501713248_138 9781501713248 9781501709302 9781501713231 9781501709319 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62153 eng Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501713248.pdf http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501709302/sexual-politics-and-feminist-science Cornell University Press Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 9781501713248 9781501709302 9781501713231 9781501709319 Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library 392 Ithaca open access
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In Sexual Politics and Feminist Science, Kirsten Leng restores the work of female sexologists to the forefront of the history of sexology. While male researchers who led the practice of early-twentieth-century sexology viewed women and their sexuality as objects to be studied, not as collaborators in scientific investigation, Leng pinpoints nine German and Austrian "women sexologists" and "female sexual theorists" to reveal how sex, gender, and sexuality influenced the field of sexology itself. Leng’s book makes it plain that women not only played active roles in the creation of sexual scientific knowledge but also made significant and influential interventions in the field. Sexual Politics and Feminist Science provides readers with an opportunity to rediscover and engage with the work of these pioneers. Leng highlights sexology’s empowering potential for women, but also contends that in its intersection with eugenics, the narrative is not wholly celebratory. By detailing gendered efforts to understand and theorize sex through science, she reveals the cognitive biases and sociological prejudices that ultimately circumscribed the transformative potential of their ideas. Ultimately, Sexual Politics and Feminist Science helps readers to understand these women’s ideas in all their complexity in order to appreciate their unique place in the history of sexology.
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