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"Recognizing Transsexuals draws on interviews with transsexuals at various stages of transition to offer an original account of transsexual embodiment and bodily aesthetics. Exploring the reasons for which transpeople desire to modify their bodies, it moves away from the focus on gender that characterizes much work on transpeople's embodiment, to investigate the concept of bodily aesthetics. Recent legislation allowing transsexuals to apply for gender recognition provides the context in which transpeople challenge the conventional understandings of what it means to be men and women. The book examines key approaches to recognizing transsexualism from within a variety of fields and considers transsexuals' bodies, body projects and embodiment in relation to personal, political and medico-legal fields. It explores the ways in which transpeople's bodily aesthetics affect social relations - such as sexual relations, acceptance by others and their families - whilst also considering contemporary political trans community organizations and their public representation of trans-bodies. Recognizing Transsexuals is the first sociological examination of how the bodies of transpeople are figured and reconfigured in socio, politico and medico-legal contexts and considers the impact of these shifts, and will be of interest to those with interests in embodiment, the sociology of law, sexology, medical sociology and gender theory."--EBL book details.

In late nineteenth-century England, "mannish" women were considered socially deviant but not homosexual. A half-century later, such masculinity equaled lesbianism in the public imagination. How did this shift occur? Citizen, Invert, Queer illustrates that the equation of female masculinity with female homosexuality is a relatively recent phenomenon, a result of changes in national and racial as well as sexual discourses in early twentieth-century public culture. Incorporating cultural histories of prewar women's suffrage debates, British sexology, women's work on the home front during World War I, and discussions of interwar literary representations of female homosexuality, Deborah Cohler maps the emergence of lesbian representations in relation to the decline of empire and the rise of eugenics in England. Cohler integrates discussions of the histories of male and female same-sex erotics in her readings of New Woman, representations of male and female suffragists, wartime trials of pacifist novelists and seditious artists, and the interwar infamy of novels such as Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness and Virginia Woolf's Orlando . By examining the shifting intersections of nationalism and sexuality before, during, and after the Great War, this book illuminates profound transformations in our ideas about female homosexuality.

"In late nineteenth-century England, 'mannish' women were considered socially deviant but not homosexual. A half-century later, such masculinity equaled lesbianism in the public imagination. How did this shift occur? Citizen, Invert, Queer illustrates that the equation of female masculinity with female homosexuality is a relatively recent phenomenon, a result of changes in national and racial as well as sexual discourses in early twentieth-century public culture. Incorporating cultural histories of prewar women's suffrage debates, British sexology, women's work on the home front during World War I, and discussions of interwar literary representations of female homosexuality, Deborah Cohler maps the emergence of lesbian representations in relation to the decline of empire and the rise of eugenics in England. Cohler integrates discussions of the histories of male and female same-sex erotics in her readings of New Woman, representations of male and female suffragists, wartime trials of pacifist novelists and seditious artists, and the interwar infamy of novels such as Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness and Virginia Woolf's Orlando. By examining the shifting intersections of nationalism and sexuality before, during, and after the Great War, this book illuminates profound transformations in our ideas about female homosexuality"--Provided by publisher

This paper addresses the history and historiography of sexual knowledge during the May Fourth New Culture Movement (ca. 1910s-1930s) in China. Chinese intellectuals engaged in an ambitious project to build a "New Culture", translating and appropriating a wide range of foreign ideas including European and American works on sexology, reproduction, and eugenics. I focus on "Dr Sex", Zhang Jingsheng (1888-1970), well-known for his 1926 publication Sex Histories. Zhang wanted to introduce the scientific study of sex to China and to overthrow what he regarded as repressive Chinese traditions. Between 1927 and 1929, Zhang operated the "Beauty Bookshop" in Fuzhou Road, Shanghai's "cultural street", to disseminate his writings and translations. He also published a short-lived journal called New Culture, which carried articles on politics, aesthetics, and most interestingly, readers' inquiries on sexual and reproductive practices. The case study on Zhang Jingsheng's "small business of sexual enlightenment"––to adapt a term from Leo Ou-fan Lee (in turn borrowed from Robert Darnton)––sheds light on local entrepreneurial and commercial dynamics in the publishing field of 1920s Shanghai that were crucial to the distribution of knowledge. It also offers an opportunity to see how China's urban, bourgeois, educated readers engaged with modern medico-scientific knowledge.

The age at which you can start or be sexually active - a very interesting question, whichconcerned not only parents, but also psychologists. Usually, you can not answer the question ofwhen and to whom to start having sex. However, there are certain statistics that the average age ofsexual debut in adolescents - is 15 years for girls and 14 for boys. Now we are talking aboutEuropean society, about what is happening in Ukraine, particularly in mountainous areas.The fact that the willingness in principle to sexual intercourse is associated with physiologicalaspects. There is a notion in sexology - sexual constitution.There are several factors play a role, of course, one of which is constitutional, but not always,psychological maturity and sexual constitution, rather, because of the need for sexual constitutionin holding intercourse can match.That is, some teens may be physiologically ready for sexual intercourse at 12-13 years, but thequestion arises: Are they psychologically? And probably we can not give a definite answer to thisquestion, because curiosity taboo in society, which in the majority rejects teen sex, pushing theminto early sexual relations. Nevertheless, probably still age readiness and psychological andphysiological - is 18-19 years if we are talking about teen sex

Starting in the nineteenth century in Germany, colourful military uniforms became a locus for various queer male fantasies, fostering an underground sexual economy of male prostitution as well as a political project to exploit the army's prestige for queer emancipation. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, a series of scandals derailed this emancipatory project. Simultaneously, public debates began to invoke homosexuality, sadism, transvestism, and other sexological concepts to criticize military policies and practices. In pursuing the threads with which queer authors and activists stitched their fantasies about uniforms, Jeffrey Schneider offers fresh perspectives on key debates over military secrecy, disciplinary abuses in the army, and German militarism. Drawing on a vast trove of materials ranging from sexological case studies, trial transcripts, and parliamentary debates to queer activist tracts, autobiographies, and literary texts, Uniform Fantasies uncovers a particularly modern set of concerns about such topics as outing closeted homosexuals, the presence of gay men in the military, and whether men in uniform are more masculine or more insecure about their sexual identity

"This book explores human-animal relations and species-based domination at the intersection of feminism with critique of our domination and exploitation of nonhuman animals, in conversation with power dynamics around coloniality and race, class, sexuality and embodiment. The collection demonstrates the continued vital importance of feminism - conceptually and theoretically, methodologically and politically - to the development of animal studies. Feminism has made an incisive critique of the ways in which gender and other intersecting differences and inequalities are constitutive of our destructive, exploitative and often violent relationships with non-human worlds. An international group of scholars and activists showcase new work, revisiting and extending established debates while negotiating new paths. Amongst the issues addressed in this collection will be questions of animal being and animal rights, caring relations, the relationships between activism and theory, interspecies sexual violence, tension in the animal defence movement around body politics, gender politics and professionalisation, different spaces of gender and animal relations from social media to sexology, safe spaces and sanctuaries, spaces of home - both in times of 'business-as-usual' and times of lockdown. This multidisciplinary volume will be essential reading to students and academics working in the fields of cultural studies, criminology, geography, history, law, philosophy, politics, and sociology, with interest in gender, environmentalism and animal studies"--

"Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922), a contemporary of Freud, Schnitzler, and Klimt, was a feminist voice in early-twentieth-century modernist discourse. Born in Prague to Jewish parents and raised in Vienna, she became a literary presence with her 1902 novel Fanny Roth. Influenced by many of her contemporaries, she also criticized their notions of gender and sexuality. Relocating to Berlin, she continued to write fiction and began publishing on sexology and the women's movement. Helga Thorson's book combines a literary-cultural exploration of modernism in Vienna and Berlin with a biography of Meisel-Hess and a critical analysis of her works. Focusing on Meisel-Hess's negotiations of feminism, modernism, and Jewishness, it illustrates the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Austrian and German modernism. Analyzing Meisel-Hess's fiction as well as her sexological studies, Thorson argues that Meisel-Hess posited herself as both a "New Woman" and the writer of the "New Woman." The book draws on extensive archival research that uncovered new sources including an unpublished drama, letters scattered in various collections across Europe, and Meisel-Hess's medical history. Until now there have been only limited secondary sources about Meisel-Hess, most containing errors and omissions regarding her biography. This is the first book on Meisel-Hess in English"--

"As a broad category of identity, "transgender" has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the field have tended to limit its cross-cultural scope. Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum. Against the backdrop of the Sinophone Pacific, Chiang argues that the concept of transgender identity must be rethought beyond a purely Western frame. At the same time, he challenges China-centrism in the study of East Asian gender and sexual configurations. Chiang brings Sinophone studies to bear on trans theory to deconstruct the ways in which sexual normativity and Chinese imperialism have been produced through one another. Grounded in an eclectic range of sources-from the archives of sexology to press reports of intersexuality, films about castration, and records of social activism-this book reorients anti-transphobic inquiry at the crossroads of area studies, medical humanities, and queer theory. Timely and provocative, Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific highlights the urgency of interdisciplinary knowledge in debates over the promise and future of human diversity"--

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Frameworks -- Chapter 1: Cultural Safety Framework for LGBTQIA+ Communites -- Introduction -- Overview of Cultural Safety -- Origins of Cultural Safety Framework -- Cultural Safety and LGBTQIA+ Populations -- The Detriment of Normalcy -- Five Tenets of Cultural Safety for LGBTQIA+ Populations -- Enacting Cultural Safety Within Specific LGBTQIA+ Patient Populations -- Legislative Barriers to LGBTQIA+ Health -- Tackling Barriers -- How do we Know if we are Providing Culturally Safe Clinical Care? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Language and Communication with LGBTQIA+ Communities -- Introduction -- Implicit Bias -- Terminology -- LGBTQIA+ Acronym -- Communication -- Using Terminology Glossary -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Impact of Stigma -- Introduction -- How Historical Stigma Has Shaped Healthcare for the LGBTQIA+ Community -- Early Psychiatry: Birth of Homosexuality -- Early Sexology: Natural Variation or Aberration? -- History's Impact on LGBTQIA+ Black, Indigenous, People of Color -- Economic Inequality-Poverty and Healthoutcomes -- Cultural Safety Summary Points -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Racial and LGBTQIA+ Microggressions -- Introduction -- What is a Microaggression? -- Implicit Bias and Microaggressions -- Why Providers Need to Understand Microaggressions -- The Impact of Microaggressions on Health and Well-Being -- How Stigma Leads to Health Disparities -- Mental Health Disparities Experienced by LGBTQIA+ Patients -- Microaggressions Targeting Trans Patients in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare -- Cultural Safety Summary Points -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- References -- Chapter 5: Trauma-Informed Care -- Introduction -- What is Trauma? -- What is Trauma-Informed Care?.

Intro -- Series Editors Preface -- Praise for Transnational LGBT Activism and UK-Based NGOs: Colonialism and Power -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 Conceptual Tools for a Decolonising, Intersectional, Transnational LGBT Activism -- NGOs and Transnational Advocacy Networks -- Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Decoloniality -- Sexualities, Normativities, and Nationalisms -- Solidarity and Intersectionality -- The Transformative Potential of Transnational LGBT Activism -- References -- 3 Unpacking the Colonial Baggage of British Imperial Sexual Discourses -- Problematising and Criminalising Same-Sex Sexuality in Pre-Twentieth-Century Western Europe -- Historical Development of Legal Discourses on Same-Sex Sexual Activity in Britain -- Sexology and the Evolving Theories of (Homo)Sexuality in Europe -- Reproducing Race and Sexuality in the Orient -- Implementation and Legacy of Colonial Sodomy Laws -- Frantz Fanon and Postcolonial Heteronationalism -- Illuminating the Impact of Colonial Legacies on LGBT Issues in Contemporary International Relations -- References -- 4 Contemporary Context of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Politics -- Contemporary International Landscape -- LGBT Rights at the United Nations -- Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act (2014): Illustrating International Interactions and Tensions with LGBT Rights -- Political Utility of LGBT Discrimination -- Influence of Transnational Networks -- Homophobia, Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Modernity: Highlighting Contemporary Complexities -- References -- 5 Analysing the UK-Based NGO Landscape Engaged in Transnational LGBT Activism -- Introducing UK-Based NGOs Engaged in Transnational LGBT Activism -- African Rainbow Family -- Human Dignity Trust -- Justice for Gay Africans Society -- Kaleidoscope Trust -- Out & -- Proud African LGBTI.

"A story of two twentieth-century American women whose love for each other fueled their work to create an egalitarian world. Developing their rhetorical skills in early-twentieth-century women's organizations, Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins, life partners and heirs to significant wealth, aimed for revolution rather than reform. They lived frugally while devoting themselves to several organizations in succession, including the Episcopal Church and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, as they searched for a place where their efforts were welcomed and where they could address the root causes of social inequities. In 1927, they joined the Communist Party USA and helped to build the Labor Research Association. There they engaged in research and wrote books, pamphlets, and articles arguing for gender and racial equality, and economic justice. Julia M. Allen's Passionate Commitments is a love story, but more than that, it is a story of two women whose love for each other sustained their political work. Allen examines the personal and public writings of Rochester and Hutchins to reveal underreported challenges to capitalism as well as little-known efforts to strengthen feminism during their time. Through an investigation of their lives and writings, this biography charts the underpinnings of American Cold War fears and the influence of sexology on political movements in mid-twentieth-century America." -- Publisher's description

Preliminary Material --Mikuláš Teich: A Biographical Sketch /Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter --Business History: Cinderella, Prince Charming or Ugly Sister? /Terry Gourvish --Darwin's Revolution /Robert N. Proctor --The different faces of science: is genetics a social construct? /Benno Müller-Hill --Bare Heads against Red Hats: a Portrait of Paracelsus /Charles Webster --Science – Education and Culture. Ideas and Concepts of German Nineteenth Century Scientists /Dietrich von Engelhardt --Thomas George Hodgkins (1803–92) and the future of Research at the Royal Institution (London) and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington) /William H. Brock --Biology as Technology /Kurt Bayertz and Patricia Nevers --From the "Originary Phenomenon" to the "System of Pelagic Fishery": Johannes Muller (1801–1858) and the Relation Between Physiology and Philosophy /Hans-Jörg Rheinberger --A Male Mind in a Female Body: Sexology, Homosexuality and the Woman Question in Germany, 1869–1914 /Katharina Rowold --The Naturalist Tradition: A Natural History /Paul Lawrence Farber --Medicine, the Body, and the Botanical Metaphor in Erotica /Julie Peakman --Biology of Liberation: Some Historical Aspects of "Proletarian Race Hygienics" /Reinhard Mocek --Credit and Resistance: Eijkman and the Transformation of Beri-Beri into a Vitamin Deficiency Disease /Harmke Kamminga --Gout and Quakery; Or, Banks and Mountebanks /Roy Porter --Notes on Contributors /Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter --Mikuláš Teich: Bibliography /Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter.

In the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This new gender confusion became a central metaphor for the War's impact on French culture and led to a marked increase in public debate concerning female identity and woman's proper role. Mary Louise Roberts examines how in these debates French society came to grips with the catastrophic horrors of the Great War. In sources as diverse as parliamentary records, newspaper articles, novels, medical texts, writings on sexology, and vocational literature, Roberts discovers a central question: how to come to terms with rapid economic, social, and cultural change and articulate a new order of social relationships. She examines the role of French trauma concerning the War in legislative efforts to ban propaganda for abortion and contraception, and explains anxieties about the decline of maternity by a crisis in gender relations that linked soldiery, virility, and paternity. Through these debates, Roberts locates the seeds of actual change. She shows how the willingness to entertain, or simply the need to condemn, nontraditional gender roles created an indecisiveness over female identity that ultimately subverted even the most conservative efforts to return to traditional gender roles and irrevocably altered the social organization of gender in postwar France.