HIST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sexology, Kinsey Scale, Our Bodies, Ourselves
12 Mar 2014
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2014: history of the history of sexuality, sexology: krafft-ebing, ellis, freud, anthropology: mead & malinowski, kinsey, feminism: second-wave; the sex wars, sexual liberation movements: gay lib; aids activism; queer, the bald guy: history/power/resistance/critique. Thinking sex historically: sexual acts vs. sexuality, essentialism vs. constructionism, sexual meanings, sexual regulation, sexual politics. The history of the history of sexuality/ historiography. Look at the development of sexuality social and historical themes that gave way to this course. Get to common understanding of sex, sexual acts, sexual identities, etc. Will be very useful for the first assignment: history of the history of sexuality. The beginings of it was during the late 19th century that they studied sexuality. See the emergence of branch of science and medicine sexology: sexology. Richard moncraft earliest sexologist; published psycopathia sexualis in 1886s: coined the terms sadism and masochism (s&m, first aimed at judges and lawers social deviance, call upon sexologist in court.
