Sexology Changed Everything: or, Why the LHMP Ends Around 1900 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 319
Sexology Changed Everything: or, Why the LHMP Ends Around 1900
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 319 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The historic context of the rise of sexology
Sexological models and major names in sexology
Gendered consequences of sexology
How sexology infiltrated popular and professional culture
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Breger, Claudia. 2005. “Feminine Masculinities: Scientific and Literary Representations of ‘Female Inversion’ at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 14:1/2 pp.76-106
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